Overcrowding and corridor care in A&E is killing around 550 patients in the UK every week, a damning study suggests.
The scale of the problem is an ‘absolute scandal’ with the fatalities the equivalent of a ‘fatal jumbo jet crash every single week’, doctors said.
The review of more than 19,000 patients in NHS hospitals found the chance of dying in the following 28 days rose by 1 per cent for every 10 per cent increase in emergency department occupancy.
Alarmingly, the 134 A&Es involved in the study had an average occupancy rate of 175 per cent, meaning they contained almost twice as
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