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.

Non-COVID-19 NHS care during the pandemic

Chart

12 December 2020

COVID-19 has disrupted hospital care for tens of thousands of patients. Our analysis covers activity trends for NHS services in England, from the beginning of the pandemic to October/November 2020.

Chart

3 December 2020

New analysis from the Improvement Analytics Unit looks at how shifts to total triage and remote consultation is impacting the use of emergency care.

Surviving COVID: Behind each statistic lies a human story

Video

2 December 2020

In this video, individuals and their families who have directly experienced the severe effects of COVID-19 during the pandemic share deeply personal insights.

Surviving COVID documentary airs on Channel 4

News

2 December 2020

When the first surge of the virus hit the UK in March 2020, the Health Foundation decided to support a Sandpaper Films documentary for Channel 4.

The impact of Extensive Care Service and Enhanced Primary Care in Fylde Coast

Briefing

November 2020

This briefing explores IAUs evidence on how multidisciplinary teams may increase emergency hospital activity at least in the short term.

Prioritising patients for emergency surgery or not: the impact of COVID-19 (ESORT-C19)

Research project

Research on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of emergency surgery versus conservative management, to inform decision-making during the COVID-19 recovery period.

Chart

3 September 2020

Social distancing has driven reduced demand for A&E services since March, particularly by children and young people. We explore the data and identify opportunities for long-term improvement in service...

Exploring the fall in A&E visits during the pandemic

Chart

30 June 2020

COVID-19 has led to radical changes in the way that people are using NHS services, including emergency care. What lies behind the fall in A&E visits and are there lessons for how care should be provid...

Emergency care: what do the May data show?

Chart

15 June 2020

In previous analyses we explored how COVID-19 is changing the use of emergency care on a national and regional level. In these charts we add in the data for May 2020 and reflect on how the picture is ...

Journal article

8 April 2020

A model development and external validation study.

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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

Non-COVID-19 NHS care during the pandemic

How are total triage and remote consultation changing the use of emergency care?

Surviving COVID: Behind each statistic lies a human story

Surviving COVID documentary airs on Channel 4

The impact of Extensive Care Service and Enhanced Primary Care in Fylde Coast

Prioritising patients for emergency surgery or not: the impact of COVID-19 (ESORT-C19)

How has children and young people’s usage of A&E been impacted by lockdown and social distancing?

Exploring the fall in A&E visits during the pandemic

Emergency care: what do the May data show?

Computer-aided National Early Warning Score to predict the risk of sepsis following emergency medical admission to hospital

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