NHS provides a treasure trove of data on patient deaths and A&E wait times. We also find likely our CEM that hospital wait times are associated with high mortality, as you'd probably expect. But particularly so trolley waits, which is when patients have come into A&E as emergencies - they're left waiting to be transferred from A&E to award in the hospital.
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front line: a stretched GP’s surgery in Wales. We ask why Germany and Poland love to hate each other. And what America’s army is doing to slim down its overweight recruits.
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