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A&E delays causing 500 deaths a week
Top medic slams 'political choice', warning deadly situation is not short-term
Ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital in east London. Ambulance staff in England and Wales walked out on Wednesday, following action by nurses on Tuesday, with the NHS braced for extra pressure as a knock-on effect of the industrial action. Picture date: Thursday December 22, 2022.
INTOLERABLE and unsustainable pressure on the austerity-hit NHS is leading to delays in emergency care which are killing up to 500 people every week, medics warned today.
The dramatic intervention came after more than a dozen health trusts and ambulance services declared critical incidents over the festive period following years of cuts to services and real-terms staff pay.
British Medical Association (BMA) council chairman Professor Phil Banfield hit out at the Tory government as he offered a stark warning about the scale of the crisis, which has already provoked national strike action.
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