(MENAFN) Dr. Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, claimed on Times Radio that delays in British emergency rooms may be responsible for 300 to 500 fatalities per week.
In November, 37,837 people had to wait more than 12 hours to be admitted to emergency rooms, up from 10,646 in November 2021, according to figures from NHS England. Boyle told the Times that he would be "amazed" if December's statistics weren't the worst ever, despite the fact that they haven't yet been made public.
In comments that were reported by several British media sources on Sunday, “what we’re seeing now in terms of these long waits is being associated with increased mortality, and we think somewhere between 300-500 people are dying as a consequence of delays and problems with urgent and emergency care each week.”
“We need to actually get a grip of this,” he also mentioned. Noting that “we need to increase our capacity within our hospitals, we need to make sure that there are alternative ways so that people aren’t all just funneled into the ambulance service and emergency department.”
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