The Latest Breaking News from Adrian Boyle

A number of NHS trusts have declared ‘critical incidents’, meaning they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.

Soldiers helped move patients into hospital

Professor Sir Stephen Powis said the public need to be 'sensible' during a 'difficult day' as more than 10,000 emergency workers from Unite, Unison and GMB unions stage walkouts over pay.

Ambulance workers striking for 12 hours on Wednesday

Thousands of nurses battling for a pay rise will walk out again in 2023 if the Government does not offer them a fresh deal in the next two days, after Health Secretary says demands are 'unaffordable'

‘Devastating’ report exposing pressures in health service should be wake-up call to ministers, say senior medics

Exclusive: Holly Ramsey from Kent waited 12 hours for a NHS 111 call back for her children with Scarlet Fever symptoms

Head of Royal College of Emergency Medicine says lengthy waits forcing ambulances to be ‘wards on wheels’

’For someone who is frail, hospital is often a bad place for them,’ senior doctor says

Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said hospital are easy to get into but hard to get out of, with an average of 13,163 beds per day occupied by people ready to be discharged last month

Dr Adrian Boyle says he's "desperate" to keep his own parents out of hospital as social care problems are crippling the NHS with patients stranded on wards and more than 130,000 job vacancies