{"id":90378,"date":"2026-06-08T07:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90378"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:34:17","slug":"16000-nhs-patients-in-england-died-after-long-waits-in-ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/16000-nhs-patients-in-england-died-after-long-waits-in-ae\/","title":{"rendered":"16,000 NHS patients in England died after long waits in A&#038;E"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA253owP.img?w=634&h=423&m=6\" alt=\"The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has called for a national commitment to eradicate waiting-time deaths by 2030\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of patients dying after enduring long waits in A&E departments has risen almost tenfold in a decade, a damning report reveals today.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/16-000-nhs-patients-in-england-died-after-long-waits-in-a-e\/ar-AA253Q1I?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a259e53d90046d8a58c6b560062e8b8&cvpid=979c25e611a5474af8a6909a4bdc593b&ei=11\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The number of patients dying after enduring long waits in A&#038;E departments has risen almost tenfold in a decade, a damning report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/patients-in-corridor.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90379,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90378\/revisions\/90379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}