Top A&E doctor accuses NHS leaders of normalising treatment in corridors NHS plan for winter will do little to stop ‘deadly’ 12 hour waits in A&E, says Dr Adrian Boyle The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2024
NHS in summer crisis of emergency care waits, doctors say Royal College of Emergency Medicine raises alarm over ‘entirely preventable’ deaths, as elderly people bear brunt The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2024
More than 250 patients a week ‘die needlessly due to long A&E waits’ Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said excessively long waits continue to put patients at risk of serious harm Evening Standard · Apr 1, 2024
England A&E wait times led to needless deaths of up to 14,000, data suggests RCEM calculates 268 people are likely to have died each week in 2023 while waiting up to 12 hours for a bed The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2024
London's A&E crisis revealed as one in eight people face 12-hour wait Health bosses say situation in emergency care is 'shameful' and needs urgent improvement Evening Standard · Jan 12, 2024
Sunak’s missed targets leave NHS facing catastrophic winter crisis Revealed: the PM’s pledges in January to improve waiting times and bed numbers are behind schedule, according to official data The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2023
Top doctors warn A&E crisis is making patients sicker as corridor care becomes routine Exclusive: Dr Vicky Price says risks to patients will only worsen this winter with one elderly man dying after 40-hour A&E wait The Independent UK · Dec 10, 2023
Dumped in A&E and left untreated for 5 days or more: Shameful plight of some of our most vulnerable patients Exclusive: Experts warn of ‘dire’ state of emergency care for mental health patients as ‘alarming’ figures highlight ‘unacceptable delays’ The Independent UK · Nov 18, 2023
‘Misleading’ A&E figures in England hiding poor performance Emergency doctors say figures are aggregated with those of minor injury centres to get closer to targets The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023
A&E seeing more people with sore throats, backache, insomnia and coughs NHS Providers said the strain on primary care services, including GPs and dentists, means patients often resort to A&E. The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023
Nearly 400,000 people waited for ‘more than a day’ in A&E The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says that it should be a ‘matter of national shame’ The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2023
400,000 wait more than a day in A&E – figures The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that it should be a ‘matter of national shame’. The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2023
‘We’re cutting NHS waiting times’, claims health minister despite record lists A minister has claimed the Government is making “good progress” on NHS waiting lists, despite a record numbers of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in England. Evening Standard · Sep 13, 2023
NHS ‘not sufficiently resilient’, says top medic as winter plans discussed NHS England said teams across the service had been planning for a ‘busy’ winter period since the start of summer. The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2023
The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2023 Thousands of babies face hospitalisation with life-threatening virus this winter as government delays vaccine Exclusive: Thousands of children’s operations will have to be cancelled as babies stricken with breathing virus fill up beds – piling further pressure on soaring waiting lists, Dr Camilla Kingdon says
The Independent UK · Aug 15, 2023 Crisis in A&E sees blood transfusion deaths up as waits and errors increase One elderly man with an intestinal bleed died after treatment delays caused by a lack of available A&E beds
Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2023 Top doctor warns ‘thousands’ could die in NHS winter crisis The NHS is ‘sailing towards an iceberg’ with hundreds of excess deaths expected this winter, experts have warned
The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2023 Thousands of people may die due to inadequate NHS winter plans – senior doctor Dr Adrian Boyle said the Government was ‘blithely sailing towards an iceberg’ with its plans for treating people.
The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2023 A chilling warning from Britain’s most senior A&E doctor: Tory winter plan could kill thousands Exclusive: Frail elderly and mentally ill will suffer most this winter, warns Dr Adrian Boyle
The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2023 NHS in acute condition: the crisis facing the UK’s hospitals Health professionals fear the country is heading for an autumn of strikes, a funding black hole and long waiting lists that will leave untreated patients in limbo
The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2023 Medical leaders call for arbitration to resolve junior doctors’ dispute In rare move Academy of Medical Royal Colleges urges unions and ministers to speak to third party over strikes in England
Daily Mirror · Apr 12, 2023 A&E staff may treat only patients who arrive by ambulance as doctors' strike bites Expert is worried the NHS will struggle to cope during the “hangover period” from the strikes next week, and says emergency departments may treat only patients arriving by ambulance
The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2023 One patient dies every 23 minutes in England after long delay in A&E More than 20,000 people died in 2022 after spending at least 12 hours waiting for care, figures show
The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023 College claims 23,000 excess deaths in 2022 were ‘linked to A&E waits’ A new briefing paper by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine examined long waits and excess deaths.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2023 Elderly people waited nearly twice as long in A&E in England as in 2021 Exclusive: rise in typical delays from nine hours to 16 hours to get care or a bed puts over 80s at greater risk of dying, say doctors