New analysis of NHS data has revealed that more than 250 patients a week could be dying unnecessarily due to the long waits for a bed in accident and emergency (A&E).
The NHS recovery plan says 76% of patients attending A&E should have been admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours in March, but just over 70% were seen in that timeframe.
Sky’s correspondent Greg Milam reports.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/a-e-waits-hundreds-of-patients-a-week-in-england-may-have-died-unnecessarily-13105646
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