Long A&E waits and excess deaths – Royal College reveals remarkable, unreported differences across UK! By stewartb Candidly, this is a highly sensitive subject. In advance of what follows, and for the avoidance of doubt, excessively long waits in A&E in Scotland are unwelcome: they need to be eliminated. And ANY and ALL avoidable ‘excess deaths’ are deeply regrettable: the causes need to be eradicated. This blog post summarises new analyses from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) of 12-hour A&E waits in NHS England. It reports the Royal College’s assessment of excess deaths in England that it claims … Continue reading Excess deaths due to long A&E waits almost three times more common in England than in Scotland