Summary
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. While the covid-19 pandemic has accentuated and arguably expedited the crisis; the spiral of decline in urgent and emergency care has been decades long and unless urgent action is taken, we may not yet have reached its nadir, writes Tim Cooksley and colleagues in this BMJ opinion article.
Reversing the urgent and emergency care spiral of decline (3 July 2023
https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1530
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