There could be as many as 500 deaths a week because of delays to the country's crippling emergency care, a senior doctor has warned.
Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told Times Radio on New Year's Day that long waiting times were being linked with hundreds of unnecessary deaths.
He said: "If you look at the graphs, they all are going the wrong way and I think there needs to be a real reset. We need to be in a situation where we cannot just shrug our shoulders and say this winter was terrible, let’s do nothing until next winter.
