More than 250 needless deaths occur each week due to agonising waits in A&E, study suggests - with a million patients waiting 12 hours or more for a bed after being admitted

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates one in 72 of those patients will have died because they were left in A&E waiting rooms before a place on a ward became available.

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