Emergency medicine Emergency medicine includes care services that look after unscheduled patients needing immediate attention for illnesses or injuries

This branch of medicine has seen significant increases in patient admissions in recent years, which has presented challenges to delivery of quality services.

Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.

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Increasing handover delays contributing to growing ambulance waiting times

Press release

4 November 2022

New analysis by the Health Foundation on ambulance service performance in England has found that the percentage of handover times exceeding 60 minutes was seven times higher in July 2022 than in 2019.

How a reachable moment in A&E can reduce youth violence and exploitation

Newsletter feature

22 March 2024

We revisit an innovative youth violence intervention project we funded six years ago, to see the longer-term impact of this support on young people’s lives.

We shouldn’t get comfortable with corridor ‘care’

Blog

14 February 2024

Heather Wilson, a registered nurse and Health Foundation Programme and Policy Officer, on the effects of overcrowded hospitals on patients, staff and families

What’s driving increasing length of stay in hospitals since 2019?

Long read

19 December 2023

Patients admitted are spending longer in hospital. In this analysis, we look at patterns of hospital admissions to explore the factors that may have contributed to this rise in the average length of h...

What’s driving increasing length of stay in hospitals since 2019?

Can guidelines rein in oxygen use? A retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collected data

Journal article

9 November 2023

Nudging Hospital Prescribers to choose the most Cost-Effective Medications, Behavioural Insights Research Programme.

Press release

3 August 2023

Comment on the Elective Recovery Plan

Blog

11 January 2023

Heather Wilson reflects on the unrelenting pressures facing nurses at the moment.

Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse?

Data analysis

4 November 2022

In England, people are waiting longer than ever for ambulances to arrive. Our analysis explains why and suggests three ways in which ambulance service performance can be improved.

Association between household context and emergency hospital use in older people

Journal article

18 June 2022

Relationship between domestic environments and use of hospital care by older people.

Journal article

12 June 2022

Improveing outcomes after critical care treatment.

Video

21 December 2020

This film illustrates the impact of the pandemic on the mental wellbeing of NHS workers and highlights the importance of providing emotional support to them at this challenging time and into the futur...

Image of a doctor working in an ICU ward during COVID-19 pandemic

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Emergency medicine Emergency medicine includes care services that look after unscheduled patients needing immediate attention for illnesses or injuries

Increasing handover delays contributing to growing ambulance waiting times

How a reachable moment in A&E can reduce youth violence and exploitation

We shouldn’t get comfortable with corridor ‘care’

What’s driving increasing length of stay in hospitals since 2019?

Can guidelines rein in oxygen use? A retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collected data

Health Foundation comment on Elective Recovery Taskforce

Running on empty: the reality of nursing in A&E

Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse?

Association between household context and emergency hospital use in older people

Evaluation of a heath and social care programme to improve outcome following critical illness

Surviving COVID: The impact of the pandemic on the mental health of NHS workers

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