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Missed and delayed medication putting A&E patients at risk, new report reveals

68 per cent of prescription doses were not administered within 30 minutes of the expected time, the study found

The Independent UK

Patients in A&E ‘risk getting worse because of missed medicine doses’

Time critical medicines are those prescribed for existing conditions, such as insulin for diabetes, Parkinson’s drugs and epilepsy medication.

Evening Standard

Only one in six A&Es in England say they could cope with major incident

Royal College of Emergency Medicine says it is ‘extremely concerned’ by survey on responses to emergencies like train crashes, Grenfell fire or Manchester Arena bombing

The Guardian - UK

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UK doctors warn of risk from expanding water beads marketed as toys

Royal College of Emergency Medicine issues Christmas ‘safety flash’ over danger to children who ingest beads

The Guardian - UK

Doctors issue warning over potentially fatal children’s Christmas gift

The toys expand inside the body if swallowed

The Independent UK

Emergency doctors have warned that some popular stocking fillers come with ‘hidden hazards’

Evening Standard

Top A&E doctors criticise ‘dangerous’ suggestion that corridor care can be delivered safely

NHS England issued new guidance on the “safest, most effective” way to treat patients in corridors

The Independent UK

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‘Dangerous’ to suggest corridor care can be delivered safely – emergency doctors

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has expressed concern about a new NHS England guide on how to treat patients in corridors.

Evening Standard

Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments

Royal College of Emergency Medicine warns of ‘unacceptable risk’ posed by lack of funding to NHS

The Guardian - UK

Emergency doctors sound the alarm over patient care

Signs of increased pressure are already starting to show in NHS performance data.

The Independent UK

NHS chief warns of ‘abhorrent’ domestic abuse faced by staff as she backs Brick by Brick campaign

Exclusive: Amanda Pritchard speaks out against domestic abuse suffered by NHS staff as she backs The Independent’s Brick by Brick campaign

The Independent UK

NHS in summer crisis of emergency care waits, doctors say

Royal College of Emergency Medicine raises alarm over ‘entirely preventable’ deaths, as elderly people bear brunt

The Guardian - UK

Tenfold rise in A&E patients waiting more than 24 hours for a bed

Figures show more than 150,000 patients waited more than 24 hours in A&E for a bed last year, most of them elderly or frail

The Guardian - UK

More than 250 patients a week ‘die needlessly due to long A&E waits’

Dr Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said excessively long waits continue to put patients at risk of serious harm

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

England A&E wait times led to needless deaths of up to 14,000, data suggests

RCEM calculates 268 people are likely to have died each week in 2023 while waiting up to 12 hours for a bed

The Independent UK

Dumped in A&E and left untreated for 5 days or more: Shameful plight of some of our most vulnerable patients

Exclusive: Experts warn of ‘dire’ state of emergency care for mental health patients as ‘alarming’ figures highlight ‘unacceptable delays’

The Independent UK

Nearly 400,000 people waited for ‘more than a day’ in A&E

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says that it should be a ‘matter of national shame’

The Independent UK

400,000 wait more than a day in A&E – figures

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said that it should be a ‘matter of national shame’.

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The National (Scotland)

Long A&E waits disadvantage women, figures show

WOMEN wait longer than men for emergency medical care in Scotland despite the fact they are more likely to be admitted to hospital after being seen…

Wales Online

23,000 people died last year because of long waits at A&E, say experts

The RCEM found that in 2022 some 1,656,206 patients in England waited 12 hours or more from their time of arrival in an emergency department until they were admitted, transferred or discharged

The Independent UK

A&E delays linked to tens of thousands of patient deaths, top doctors claim

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine said the scale was ‘deeply distressing’

The Guardian - UK

One patient dies every 23 minutes in England after long delay in A&E

More than 20,000 people died in 2022 after spending at least 12 hours waiting for care, figures show

The Independent UK

College claims 23,000 excess deaths in 2022 were ‘linked to A&E waits’

A new briefing paper by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine examined long waits and excess deaths.

The Guardian - UK

Elderly people waited nearly twice as long in A&E in England as in 2021

Exclusive: rise in typical delays from nine hours to 16 hours to get care or a bed puts over 80s at greater risk of dying, say doctors

The Guardian - UK

Ministers could help the patients dying in NHS hospital corridors right now – they just choose not to

Be under no illusion: the hundreds of avoidable deaths in the NHS every week are the result of political decisions, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

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