{"id":458,"date":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-1-11-dauktelegraphwaitingtimes\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:00:00","slug":"2020-1-11-dauktelegraphwaitingtimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/2020-1-11-dauktelegraphwaitingtimes\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK in The Telegraph: medics say NHS on its knees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before Christmas over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/over-2000-doctors-write-boris-21123062\">2000 doctors wrote to Boris Johnson<\/a> warning that the \u2018NHS was on its knees\u2019. The letter, co-ordinated by The Doctors\u2019 Association urged that without change, the NHS was heading into the \u2018worst winter crisis yet\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accident &amp; Emergency waiting times are now the worst on record, with more than a fifth of patients waiting more than four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medics warned that they were \u201con their knees\u201d as the NHS continued to miss a raft of key targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EDs should see at least 95 percent of patients within four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the figure fell to 79.8 per cent in December, the lowest performance since records began in 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of patients enduring waits of more than 12 hours on trolleys also hit a new high last month, with  2,347 patients stuck in corridors and side-rooms, more than double the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/01\/09\/ae-waiting-times-worst-record-medics-say-nhs-knees\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Christmas over 2000 doctors wrote to Boris Johnson warning that \u2018the NHS was on its knees\u2019. The letter, co-ordinated by The Doctors\u2019 Association UK urged that without change, the NHS was heading into the \u2018worst winter crisis yet. Now it has emerged that A&amp;E waiting times are the worst on record as the NHS continues to miss a raft of targets.&nbsp;<\/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":[162,39,132,33,42,43],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassionate-culture","category-learn-not-blame","category-nhs-pensions-crisis","tag-boris-johnson","tag-doctors-association-uk","tag-nhs","tag-press","tag-the-doctors-association-uk","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","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=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}