December set to be worst month on record for A&E waiting times as up to 500 people estimated to die each week due to delays
The deaths of an estimated 300 to 500 people each week caused by delays in emergency care is “not a short-term thing”, a senior UK health official has said.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday, Higginson said the “appalling” waits could not be blamed on winter flu or Covid, as more than a dozenHe said: “These are real figures and I worry that we’re going to hear attempts to spin and manipulate this data and discredit it. I think if we hear that, we’ve got to say no – that is spin. This is a real problem. It’s happening now in our emergency departments.
“If you’re at the frontline, you know that this is a longstanding problem. This isn’t a short-term thing. The sort of things we’re seeing happen every winter, and it still seems to come as a surprise to the NHS. It gets worse every winter.” He also cited peer-reviewed research showing for every 82 patients that are delayed by more than six hours, there is one associated death.
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