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The latest news and comment on hospital accident and emergency (A&E) departments

September 2026

  • A motion-blurred medical worker in scrubs walks through a busy hospital emergency ward

    Almost 75% of A&E staff in UK face violence or aggression daily or weekly

    Survey finds long waiting times and overcrowding have made abuse ‘routine’ part of working on hospital frontline

June 2026

  • NHS waiting listsFile photo dated 07/01/21 of Staff nurses working in the corridor in the Acute Dependency Unit at St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, as NHS patients should be treated as "more than a number on a waiting list", leading nurses have said. PA Photo. Issue date: Thursday April 14, 2022. Commenting on new figures which show dozens of patients in England have been waiting for more than three years for hospital care, the Royal College of Nursing said that "patients will pay the price" as a result of a shortage of nurses. See PA story HEALTH Waits. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

    Emergency medicine is in crisis – why is this allowed to continue?

  • Medical staff in the A&E department at Royal Stoke Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, 17 October 2025.

    Patients are dying in A&E corridors – but I’ve seen how things could be different

    Sophie
  • Accident and emergency wing at a hospital.

    A&E patients with non-urgent ailments may be told to come back later under NHS plans

  • Staff in a hospital ward

    More than 1,300 deaths a month in England due to long A&E waits, figures suggest

May 2026

  • A medic in a blur of motion in an accident and emergency ward

    Children in mental health crisis waiting up to three days in A&E for specialist bed in England

  • A scene from The Pitt

    ‘So much of it resonates’: The Pitt strikes a chord with UK A&E medics

January 2026

  • Polly Toynbee

    I went to A&E with a broken wrist and caught a dose of ‘I’ve been lucky’ syndrome

    Polly Toynbee
  • Cucumber being sliced with a mandolin

    The rule of thumb when using a mandolin in the kitchen

  • A paramedic lowers a ramp on an ambulance.

    Four NHS trusts in England declare critical incidents after ‘surge’ in A&E admissions

  • Doctor or surgeon using digital tabletFemale surgeon typing on digital tablet in hospital or surgery. She is wearing a dark blue nurse’s top and has her stethoscope around her neck. She is looking at her patients records on her digital tablet and sending emails.

    Don’t blame GPs for patients going to A&E with coughs and other minor ailments

December 2025

  • Ambulance and people outside the accident and emergency department of a hospital

    Huge rise in number of people in England’s A&Es for coughs or hiccups

  • A patient bed in the corridor of an NHS hospital ward

    A&Es in ‘big trouble’ because of ‘normalised’ corridor care, says leading UK medic

  • Medical staff in the A&E department at Royal Stoke hospital, in October amid an early flu outbreak

    AI being used to help cut A&E waiting times in England this winter

  • General view of staff on a NHS hospital ward

    NHS ‘facing worst-case scenario’ as hospital flu cases jump 55% in a week

October 2025

  • Patient on bed in a corridor in a hospital

    Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year

  • Michael Segalov at home, sitting in blue chair next to a sideboard with his luxuries

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I nearly died when I was hit by a car – then started to relish life’s little luxuries

September 2025

  • People walking in and out of an accident and emergency department entrance

    Children detained under Mental Health Act held for hours in A&E departments

    Research finds children as young as nine in England and Wales taken to A&E because of lack of specialist suites

August 2025

  • Accident and Emergency sign on a wall above the top of an ambulance

    NHS data reveals A&E ‘Uber ambulance crisis’ in England, say Lib Dems

    Party says figures highlight growing loss of faith in ability of services to be there for people when needed

June 2025

  • A bed is pushed along a hospital corridor

    NHS England to give urgent help away from A&E to cut ‘corridor care’

    Move is part of £450m Wes Streeting plan to tackle long delays and end hospital overcrowding
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