The answer to crowding and inadequate staffing isn’t to chop attendances but to create an emergency-care hub with other essential services
Last year Sir Bruce Keogh,medical director of NHS England, described the system as “creaking”. Pressures absorb risen every year for more than a decade and last winter many hospitals struggled to manage. Some trusts were forced to declare major incidents, or few succeeded in delivering the four-hour standard. In 2014-15 £700m was allocated to winter pressures funding,though only a fraction of this was spent on A&E department resources. The figure allocated for 2015-16 is £390m.
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Source: theguardian.com