Senior medical staff call for solutions to tackle root causes of excess deaths amid tenfold increase in a decade More than 1,300 patients a month in England are dying needlessly due to long A&E waits, a tenfold rise in a decade, figures suggest. There were more than 300 deaths linked to long waits every week in 2025, up from 30 a week in 2015, according to analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. The RCEM’s president, Dr Ian Higginson, said he wondered how many more deaths it would take before there was a meaningful plan to tackle the crisis. “We have to ask why this awful problem isn’t the subject of relentless focus and political conversation. The number of deaths linked to long stays in our emergency departments explicitly show the system is failing the patients it is meant to be caring for,” he said. For its excess death estimates, the RCEM used a study of more than 5 million NHS patients published in the Emergency Medicine Journal in 2021. This found there was one excess death for every 72 patients who spent eight to 12 hours in A&E before being found a bed. The risk of death started to increase after five hours and got worse with longer waiting times. Using this m
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Weight-loss jab Wegovy will be offered for free on the NHS to patients in Scotland at risk of heart attacks and strokes. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted semaglutide, also known as Wegovy, as a treatment alongside diet…
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Weight-loss jab Wegovy will be offered for free on the NHS to patients in Scotland at risk of heart attacks and strokes. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted semaglutide, also known as Wegovy, as a…
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