Starmer accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ as A&E waits up 400-fold in a decade
The Labour government has been accused of being “asleep at the wheel” as new data has shown that there were a record 518,000 waits of 12 hours or longer in A&E last year.
The figure, produced by the Liberal Democrats, is nearly 400-times higher than 2015’s figure of 1,306.
The data shows that the number of 12-hour waits, recorded from the point of admission, has increased by more than 100,000 on 2023’s figure of 415,000 – a 25 per cent jump.
Prior to the pandemic in 2019 there were just 8,272 waits of 12 hours or longer.
In December 2023 alone, 54,000 patients waited 12 hours or longer in A&E, up 23-fold on the December 2019’s figure of just 2,356.
Starmer accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel’ as A&E waits up 400-fold in a decade
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-a-e-flu-Keir-Starmer-b2677318.html
