Hospital patients have to wait for beds for more than 10 days – as “unacceptable” crisis bare | UK News
According to the NHS, about 49,000 A&E patients had to wait 24 hours or more to be in hospital beds in England last year.
Data from Liberal Democrats From free information requests, the longest waiting time is 10 days and 13 hours.
The party said there are 48,830 “trolleys waiting” in 2024 for 24 hours or more. The party is 19.8% higher than in 2023 (40,735) and 57.9% higher than in 2022 (30,921).
After deciding to take him to the hospital, the time it takes to transfer the patient to the ward was “trolley waiting”.
The Liberal Democrats say the actual number could be higher, as only 54 out of 141 NHS The Trust provides complete data.
The percentage of people waiting for 65 or over 65 years has remained consistent over the past three years, about 70%.
Royal Nursing says the numbers “only start scratching the surface of the “corridor nursing crisis” – a decline in recruitment in nursing is exacerbating the problem.
Secretary-General Nicola Ranger said corridor care was “unsafe, unsafe” and “must be eliminated”.
The crisis “will take time” to resolve
The government did it Cut NHS waiting list One of its key tasks.
It insisted that progress has been made by deploying RSV, COVID and flu vaccines, ending strikes for health workers and reforming health services, including the cancellation of NHS England.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Care said: “No patient is allowed to spend 24 hours waiting for admission in the emergency room.
“We are determined to end the annual winter crisis in urgent care and cut the list of waiting for emergency care, but it takes time.”
They say “providing more care in the community” will help ensure fewer patients end up being A&E.
Lib Dems is running for a new team of experienced NHS bosses that will be deployed in struggling NHS trusts and bring them to standards.
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Official statistics show that the total number of patients waiting for more than 12 hours in England has decreased 61,529 in January March to 46,766.
Some people in the fall can be attributed to the seasonal peaks of winter diseases.
Previous analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine found that nearly 14,000 deaths were associated with long-term A&E stays before admission in 2023.
