Emergency care plan for England lacks ambition, say doctors’ leaders
A £450m government plan to improve urgent and emergency care in England and avert a winter crisis could have shown more ambition in tackling longer waiting times, doctors’ leaders have said. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine welcomed elements of the urgent and emergency care plan for 2025-26,1 including commitments to publish NHS trusts’ emergency department performance data and increase staff vaccinations to help protect patients. “However,” it added, “the college has concerns about the lack of a cast iron commitment to ending dangerous and demeaning 12 hour waits in emergency departments.” The plan, published on 6 June by NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care, aims to reduce the problem of corridor care that has become endemic in many hospitals. It includes pledges …
