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    Home - News Briefing - Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments
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    Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments

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    Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments

    Doctors warn of ‘massive’ winter crisis in UK’s overstretched A&E departments

    Emergency doctors have sounded the alarm over an approaching winter crisis that they say is already putting patients in overstretched A&E departments at risk.

    Nearly all medics (94%) fear patients are coming to harm because of the conditions in A&E departments around the UK, according to a snapshot survey of 83 medics from emergency departments from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM). Most (87%) are not confident their departments will cope well over the winter months, while 41% feel less prepared for this winter compared with last year.

    More than four-fifths (83%) of the emergency doctors surveyed between 7 and 13 November said patients were being cared for in corridors, which can leave people stranded for hours on trolleys or chairs, while more than half (51%) had seen patients forced to wait outside emergency departments in ambulances.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/18/uk-doctors-winter-crisis-accident-and-emergency

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    David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

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