Welsh health minister ‘concerned’ about ambulance A&E handover delays
Wales’s health minister has said he is “concerned” about the time it is taking ambulances to hand over patients to A&E departments.
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Health Secretary hints four-hour A&E wait target could be scrapped
The four-hour A&E waiting time target could be scrapped after the NHS in England recorded its worst figure on record, the Health Secretary has hinted.
Number of A&E patients seen within four-hour target hits record low
Increasing numbers of patients are waiting more than four hours to be seen at A&E departments, which also saw a record number of attendances and ambulance callouts in December.
A&E units treat record number of patients as winter bites
The NHS experienced its busiest month on record in December with an unprecedented number of A&E attendances and ambulance call-outs.
NHS waiting list hits record high as more also wait longer in A&E
More people than ever are on the waiting list for NHS treatment and not a single A&E department hit the four-hour target for seeing patients, new figures have shown.
Attendances of homeless people at A&E triple in eight years
Attendances of homeless patients at A&E have at least tripled in eight years, with hundreds stuck in hospitals for long periods of time, figures show.
Conservatives ‘staggeringly out of touch’ on NHS, says Labour
Labour has accused the Tories of being “staggeringly out of touch” after Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the NHS was in many ways performing better than ever.
NHS facing ‘one of bleakest winters’ as waits for A&E and cancer treatment mount
The NHS is experiencing its worst ever performance in A&E, and thousands of people face rising waits for operations and cancer treatment, according to the last set of monthly health data before the General Election.
Former A&E nurse invents life-saving device that’s due to be launched in Scots hospitals this year
A FORMER A&E nurse has invented a life-saving device that is set to go into to hospitals within weeks.
Addicted to A&E: Repeat offenders unnecessarily returning time and again
THEY are dubbed the “frequent fliers” by over-stretched doctors and nurses in Scotland’s emergency departments.
A&E waiting times performance improves, despite Beast from the East