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| The number of A&E patients being treated within the politically important four-hour target target has reached its lowest ever level, with hospitals managing to care for just 77.3% of patients within that time last month – far fewer than the 95% target. | The number of A&E patients being treated within the politically important four-hour target target has reached its lowest ever level, with hospitals managing to care for just 77.3% of patients within that time last month – far fewer than the 95% target. |
| Fewer than four out of five (77.3%) patients were treated and then admitted, discharged or transferred by emergency departments based at hospitals in England during December, what the NHS calls type 1 A&E units. | Fewer than four out of five (77.3%) patients were treated and then admitted, discharged or transferred by emergency departments based at hospitals in England during December, what the NHS calls type 1 A&E units. |
| That was the worst performance since records began and even worse than the previous low of 77.6% recorded in January 2017 and the 79.3% seen in December 2016. | That was the worst performance since records began and even worse than the previous low of 77.6% recorded in January 2017 and the 79.3% seen in December 2016. |
| More patients than ever before were also admitted to hospital as an emergency last month – 392,277 in all – in another illustration of the intense and growing pressure that the NHS is under. | More patients than ever before were also admitted to hospital as an emergency last month – 392,277 in all – in another illustration of the intense and growing pressure that the NHS is under. |
| Patients are suffering as a result of hospitals’ inability to treat anywhere near the 95% of A&E arrivals that they are supposed to, senior doctors are warning. | Patients are suffering as a result of hospitals’ inability to treat anywhere near the 95% of A&E arrivals that they are supposed to, senior doctors are warning. |
| “These figures support the messages we have been getting from our members about conditions across the NHS and the struggle they are facing to provide safe and compassionate care in exceedingly difficult conditions,” said Dr Nick Scriven, the president of the Society for Acute Medicine, which represents acute and general medical specialist hospital. | “These figures support the messages we have been getting from our members about conditions across the NHS and the struggle they are facing to provide safe and compassionate care in exceedingly difficult conditions,” said Dr Nick Scriven, the president of the Society for Acute Medicine, which represents acute and general medical specialist hospital. |
| “The data hides the misery and lack of dignity some people are being treated with and it is a potentially worrying side note that the Care Quality Commission is postponing inspections during ‘winter’.” | “The data hides the misery and lack of dignity some people are being treated with and it is a potentially worrying side note that the Care Quality Commission is postponing inspections during ‘winter’.” |
| There were 24 flu-related deaths in the last week of 2017, taking the total number of flu-related deaths to 48 so far this winter, official figures from Public Health England show. | There were 24 flu-related deaths in the last week of 2017, taking the total number of flu-related deaths to 48 so far this winter, official figures from Public Health England show. |
| The Liberal Democrats claimed the figures showed that ministers had to agree to abandon their longstanding policy of giving the NHS “inadequate” funding or risk having “blood on their hands” as a result of patients receiving poor care. | |
| “Theresa May cannot ignore this crisis any longer. All the government has offered is inadequate sums of money which barely keep a dysfunctional system going”, said Norman Lamb, who was a health minister in the coalition government until 2015. | |
| “Every day patients are dying and experiencing dreadful failures of care. So the message to the government is clear: sort it now, without delay. Ministers have a choice: agree to work with others to deliver a proper, sustainable settlement for the NHS or be left with blood on their hands.” | |
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