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between 300 and 500 people are dying each week as a result of delays and problems with emergency care. they are warning against any attempt to discredit that figure. do you recognise that figure? i think we can argue about particular figures and methodologies. what i don t think we can argue about is that there is high levels of patient risk and high levels of patient harm than we would like to see and we are not able to provide the level of care we want to provide and chris hopson from nhs england himself may have disputed the figures but it doesn t dispute the fact that we are not able to provide the level of care we want to provide. that is the reality and we have to talk firstly about what we have to do to get a through the next few weeks and then we have to have a conversation about how it is we can avoid going into next winter and is fragile estate as we have entered this one. when you talk about patient harm, it is more than that, it is patient death, that s what is happening, p
what i don t think we can argue about is that there is high levels of patient risk and higher levels of patient harm than we would like to see and we are not able to provide the level of care we want to provide and chris hopson from nhs england himself may have disputed the figures but doesn t dispute the fact that we are not able to provide the level of care we want to provide. that is the reality and we have to talk firstly about what we have to do to get a through the next few weeks, and then we have to have a conversation about how it is we can avoid going into next winter and is fragile a state as we ve entered this one. when you talk about patient harm, it is more than that, it s patient death, that s what is happening, people are dying who should not be dying. it s very difficult to imagine that that isn t the case, when you see how long it is taking four ambulances to reach people and you see how long people are waiting in hospital. thousands of people have begun paying their r
we have got to be honest with the public about the situation that we face. we have got to be clear in the messages we give the public about how they should best use the national health service, and also, as you said, we have got to do something about the threat of industrial action because we cannot injanuary, which is our busiest month come on top of all of this take four more days of industrial action. you talk they re about being honest. the royal college of emergency medicine, you heard in the report, they are saying somewhere between 300 and 500 people are dying each week as a result of delays and problems with emergency care. they are warning against any attempt to discredit that figure. do you recognise that figure? i think we can argue about particular figures and methodologies. what i don t think we can argue about is that there is high levels of patient risk and high levels of patient harm than we would like to see and we are not able to provide the level of care we want to p