AN estimated 500 people are dying each week because of delays in emergency care and it's “not a short-term thing”, a senior health official has said.
Ian Higginson, vice-president of the UK's Royal College of Emergency Medicine, hit out at any attempt to “discredit” previous warnings from his organisation over serious problems in hospitals by blaming the pandemic.
Speaking to the BBC's Today programme on Monday, he said: “What we’ve been hearing over the last few days is that the current problems are all due to Covid or they’re all due to flu, or that this is complex, you mustn’t jump to conclusions – all that sort of stuff.
