{"id":90525,"date":"2026-06-11T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90525"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:22:25","slug":"ae-patients-with-non-urgent-ailments-may-be-told-to-come-back-later-under-nhs-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/ae-patients-with-non-urgent-ailments-may-be-told-to-come-back-later-under-nhs-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#038;E patients with non-urgent ailments may be told to come back later under NHS plans"},"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\/AA25kkmF.img?w=768&h=614&m=6\" alt=\"One hospital using \u2018digital triage\u2019 had almost halved average A&E waiting times, NHS England said. Photograph: Islandstock\/Alamy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patients who turn up at A&E with non-urgent ailments could be told to come back another time under NHS plans to stop hospitals becoming overcrowded and avoid the service\u2019s usual winter crisis.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/a-e-patients-with-non-urgent-ailments-may-be-told-to-come-back-later-under-nhs-plans\/ar-AA25jZMq?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2a6ec319894804a6a0010f82d6fad7&ei=16\">Read More\u00a0<\/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>Patients who turn up at A&#038;E with non-urgent ailments could be told to come back another time under NHS plans to stop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Accident-and-emergency.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525","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=90525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90526,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90525\/revisions\/90526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}