Editorial - The NHS urgent and emergency care crisis: how much worse could it get?
Cooksley, Timothy J
Cooksley, Timothy J
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NHS urgent and emergency care is under intolerable strain. This strain is increasingly causing harm to patients. Timely and high-quality patient care is often not being delivered due to overcrowding driven by workforce and capacity constraints. This drives low staff morale perpetuating burn out and high absence levels which currently dominate. Whilst COVID19 has accentuated and arguably expedited the crisis; the spiral of decline in urgent and emergency care has been decade long and unless urgent action is taken, we may not yet have reached its nadir.
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2022
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Cooksley T. Editorial - The NHS urgent and emergency care crisis: how much worse could it get? Acute medicine. 2022;21(4):166-7. PubMed PMID: 36809446. Epub 2023/02/23. eng.