A&E deaths in Nottingham hospitals doubled at the height of NHS winter crisis in December, an exclusive investigation has found. Accident and Emergency wards were at breaking point in December 2022.
The figures show that 57 people died in A&E at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust during December. It is almost double the average of 28 A&E deaths across the previous four Decembers.
Figures obtained by the Reach Data Unit have revealed there was a huge rise in the number of deaths in A&E during the winter crisis. Freedom of Information requests were sent to every NHS trust in England asking for the number of people to have died in their A&E departments each month, with 84 trusts providing figures.
