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       Do more patients need to be admitted to a hospital bed from A&am
       p;E?
       By: admini5 Date: May 12, 2015, 3:42 am
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       It is not only the number of people attending A&E that has
       increased; evidence suggests that patients are more unwell and
       more likely to require admission than in the past. So far this
       year there have been more than 164,000 more admissions from A&E
       compared to last year, equating to around 4,000 more per week.
       Figure 3: Emergency admissions from A&E, weekly data
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       height=14]
  HTML http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/styles/large/public/media/emergency-admissions-from-a-and-e.jpg?itok=tpwErIt6[/img]
       As the number of people admitted from A&E into hospital wards
       has increased, so have waiting times. The number of patients who
       are waiting in A&E departments for admission to a hospital bed
       for more than four hours after the decision to admit them has
       been made has increased to 8.9 per cent or more than 90,500 in
       the latest quarter.
       Figure 4: Percentage of patients waiting more than four hours in
       A&E departments from decision to admit to admission
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       height=15]
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       For further information:
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