NHS in summer crisis of emergency care waits, doctors say

Royal College of Emergency Medicine raises alarm over entirely preventable' deaths, as elderly people bear brunt

The NHS is engulfed in a summer crisis, senior doctors have said, amid severe ambulance delays, corridors crowded with trolleys and patients facing 25-hour waits in A&E units.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) sounded the alarm over the national scandal" of long waits for emergency care that it said were leading to entirely preventable" deaths at a time of the year when there should be some respite from the traditional pressure experienced over winter.