{"id":457,"date":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-1-11-daukchroniclewaitingtimes\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"2020-1-11-daukchroniclewaitingtimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-1-11-daukchroniclewaitingtimes\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in The Chronicle: The worrying statistics that expose record waiting times at your A&amp;E"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figures released by NHS England show just 70.6% of people arriving at A&amp;Es run by County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust in December waited less than four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North East health chiefs have urged patients to &#8220;use services wisely&#8221; as shock figures show A&amp;E waiting times soared this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Rinesh Parmar, chair of The Doctors\u2019 Association UK and an intensive care doctor, said: \u201cThese figures, the worst on record, will sadly not come as a surprise to front-line doctors, who are working themselves into the ground to keep patients safe this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPoor morale and spiralling workloads have contributed to a staffing crisis in emergency medicine with A&amp;E doctors showing the highest level of burnout across all specialities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEmergency doctors and our nursing colleagues are doing their utmost under very trying circumstances and it is the Government who must be held to account for these latest performance figures \u2013 which is almost certainly a direct result of years of under-funding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BMA emergency medicine lead, Dr Simon Walsh, said: \u201cHow many wake-up calls does the Government need?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.chroniclelive.co.uk\/news\/worrying-statistics-expose-record-waiting-17546694<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures released by NHS England show just 70.6% of people arriving at A&amp;Es run by County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust in December waited less than four hours. Dr Rinesh Parmar, Chair of The Doctors\u2019 Association UK spoke to The Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,92,149],"tags":[150,46,132,33,160,42,161],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-learn-not-blame","category-nhs-pensions-crisis","tag-ae","tag-dr-rinesh-parmar","tag-nhs","tag-press","tag-the-chronicle","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-waiting-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}