BBCNEWS BBC News October 14, 2021 13:03:00
In august, compared with more than 80% before the pandemic. here's our health correspondent katherine da costa. pressure on a&e departments is being felt right across the uk. a combination of covid, other respiratory viruses and more patients coming forward for care are adding to the demand. that's meant record numbers of patients in all four nations facing a long wait to be seen. in england, nearly 470,000 patients, a quarter who visited a&e, waited longer than four hours to be treated. that's up almost 70% compared to the same month two years ago. of those needing a bed, more than 100,000 wa...