The Royal College of Emergency Medicine sent freedom of information requests to the NHS for its latest data on A&E waiting times, discovering more than a million patients waiting longer than 12 hours in the department from the moment they walked in, until the time they left.
Long A&E waits contributed to 23,000 excess deaths in 2022, a study by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has suggested.
The college claims its analysis shows that last year 1.66 million people were left waiting for more than 12 hours in A&E from the moment they walked in.The RCEM sent freedom of information requests to the NHS, in an effort to uncover the number of people who waited for more than 12 hours from when they stepped into A&E, which it found to be 1,656,296 patients, then worked out the mortality rates linked to long waits.
A mortality ratio looks at whether a specific population are more, or less, or just as likely to die compared to the general population. The RCEM performed the analysis by using data from an Emergency Medicine Journal study from 2021, which linked excess deaths to long A&E waits in England between 2016 and 2018, and concluded there was one extra death for every 72 patients that spent eight to 12 hours in the emergency department.
Using the mortality ratio from the previous study, as well as the figure given by the NHS, the college estimated that there had been 23,003 excess deaths in 2022 in England, linked to long A&E waits.
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