More than a million elderly people in England endured waits of 12 hours or more in A&E in 2024, prompting senior doctors to warn of an "alarming threat to patient safety". A new report from the Royal ...

Top emergency doctors have criticised a new guide on how to treat patients in corridors, warning it is “normalising the dangerous”. New guidance produced by NHS England in September on how to provide ...

Hospital emergency departments in the UK have been urged to return infection prevention and control to the “top of their agendas” or risk putting patients’ lives at risk, after a report revealed ...

Twenty-four hours in A&E is “no longer just a documentary”, leading medics have warned as figures show that almost 400,000 patients spent 24 hours or more in an emergency department in England last ...