SERIOUSLY ill patients face deadly delays as A&E departments endured their worst month ever in July, MPs warned last night. Four in ten casualty patients had at least a four-hour wait to be see…
“Record waiting times have a cost in lives.”
Pat Cullen, general secretary at the Royal College of Nursing, said: “Hospitals are full to bursting and one thing worsens the other.“If patients on trollies are lining the emergency department corridors, then ambulances can’t offload their patients and respond to other 999 calls.”
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