"Thousands" of patients a year are dying because of overcrowding in hospital emergency departments, a Royal College of Emergency Medicine report has found.
The report, released on November 18, claimed an estimated 4,519 people in England died in 2020-21 as a direct result of delays caused by overcrowding in A&E departments waiting to start treatment in the hospital.
There have also been 709 deaths in Wales and 303 in Scotland so far this year, with 566 excess death in Northern Ireland, said the College.
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