The Independent covers reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech while investigating political financing and producing documentary work, and keeps reporting free from paywalls funded by donations. Donations support on-the-ground reporting and enable journalists to present multiple perspectives to a broad political audience. NHS data indicate hungry patients are overwhelming emergency departments, with A&E admissions for hunger more than tripling—rising by nearly 219 percent between 2018-19 and 2023-24. The surge reflects spiralling food prices, rising poverty, and the broader cost-of-living crisis, with food bank use increasing and parents sometimes skipping meals so children can eat.
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Hungry patients are overwhelming NHS emergency departments at unprecedented levels, researchers claim. Admissions to hospital Accident and Emergency (A&E) units because of hunger have more than tripled, rising by nearly 219 per cent in five years, figures suggest. Analysis of NHS data shows a lack of food was the fastest growing cause of A&E admissions in England between 2018-19 and 2023-24, as food prices and poverty spiralled.
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