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How far does Emergency Department performance need to fall

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Hippocratic Post

Responding to the latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for December 2022, Dr Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said: “December’s performance figures are truly shocking, more than 50% of all patients facing waits over four-hours and nearly 55,000 patients facing 12-hour waits from the decision to admit. […]

Emergency Department: Growing concern about the looming winter

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Hippocratic Post

The latest Emergency Department performance figures for September 2021 published today by NHS England show the highest number of 12-hour stays on record, the highest number of four-hour stays on record, and the worst four-hour performance ever recorded. The data show in September 2021 there were 1,392,542 attendances to Type 1 Emergency Departments in England. […]