400,000 faced 24 hours in A&E last year as NHS chaos branded 'matter of national shame'

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400,000 faced 24 hours in A&E last year as NHS chaos branded 'matter of national shame'
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'It feels actually sometimes a little bit embarrassing the level of care that we're able to offer people when they really need us,' said Dr Adrian Boyle of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine

“Thanks to the hard work of NHS staff category 2 ambulance response times are now an hour faster than in December, A&E four-hour performance is up from 69 per cent to 73 per cent, and the proportion of patients waiting 12 hours in A&E is down a sixth.

“That’s we have set out the widely-endorsed urgent and emergency care recovery plan since this study was carried out, which aims to deliver one of the fastest and longest sustained improvements in waiting times in the NHS’s history, including creating 5,000 permanent staffed hospital beds, with recent improvements made in A&E performance compared to last year.”cancelled because of strikes in England is expected to surpass one million, NHS management has said.

Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, said: “The immediate concern has to be with patients – more than a million and counting – whose care or treatment has been delayed. Professor Phil Banfield, council chairman of the British Medical Association, said: “The last thing we ever want is to cause further disruption to the patients in our care and I am extremely sorry that it has come to this. But these strikes are about theand ensuring there are trained doctors around to care for all patients in the future.

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