Hospitals swamped by 1.5million needless emergency admissions every year as critical operations are stopped
HOSPITALS are being swamped by 1.5million needless emergency admissions each year. MPs claim avoidable stays are harming legitimate patients, with bed shortages forcing the NHS to cancel thousands of critical operations. Hospitals carried out 23,000 fewer procedures last January compared with the previous year. A damning report by the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee blamed “lamentable” […]