Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke has highlighted the sheer size of the challenge awaiting new manager Erik ten Hag this summer, insisting it will require "major surgery."
13.05.2022 - 22:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The NHS is battling record numbers of patients facing 12-hour waits in A&E for a hospital bed, according to the latest figures. It comes after the decision to admit them to a ward, meaning they will already have likely waited for an ambulance and then while being assessed when they arrived at A&E.
The latest monthly performance figures published by NHS England for April 2022 reveal that 24,138 patients who attended major emergency departments were delayed for 12 hours or more from the decision to admit to getting a bed on a ward. This is the highest number of 12-hour waits on record for England, and is a seven per cent increase in 12-hour waits compared to the previous month, March 2022, which also saw a record high.
The shocking figures also show that the 79,606 12-hour waits from the decision to admit recorded so far in 2022 is just 3,250 fewer than the total recorded between August 2010 and December 2021 - which stands at 82,856.
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Leading medics say the concerning numbers demonstrate that the ‘crisis in urgent and emergency care continues to deteriorate’, as the situation becomes ‘more serious than it has ever been’. Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), said: “The crisis in urgent and emergency care continues to deteriorate.
“The data show 24,000 patients were delayed in an emergency department for 12 hours or more from [the] decision to admit to admission. This is a staggering and grim number and should seriously alarm all political and health leaders.
“Patients are coming to harm; now is the time for an urgent and emergency care plan to tackle this
Former Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke has highlighted the sheer size of the challenge awaiting new manager Erik ten Hag this summer, insisting it will require "major surgery."
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