How many excess deaths in Britain are associated with A&E delays?

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The proportion of patients who wait more than 12 hours in accident-and-emergency departments to be admitted to a ward has risen from 2% to 7% over the past year

that the National Health Service is under enormous pressure is undisputed. Almost everything else is debated, including the question of how many patients are dying as a result of the chaos in hospitals. The proportion of patients who wait more than 12 hours in accident-and-emergency departments to be admitted to a ward has risen from 2% to 7% over the past year. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine , a doctors’ association, has estimated that delays inEngland do not accept this figure.

The data suggest that something is very awry. Excess mortality in England—a measure of deaths from all causes compared with a baseline period—in the four weeks to December 30th was 15% higher than the average of this period in 2016-19. That amounts to an extra 1,600 deaths per week .in early 2022. Its authors used.

. The prevalence of covid-19 and flu are beyond its control. But that more people are dying—and dying in large numbers—because of delays in

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