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Six Yorkshire hospitals tell injured people to ‘stay away from A&E’ unless lives in danger
‘This is what happens when government fails to invest properly in the NHS and tens of thousands of nursing vacancies go unfilled for years’, RCN says
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THE NHS slipped deeper into crisis today as six Yorkshire hospitals told injured people to stay away from their A&E departments unless their lives are in danger.
And bosses at a major ambulance trust have urged the public not to dial 999 unless they face “a life-threatening or serious emergency.”
The “stay away from A&E” call was issued by the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts, representing emergency departments at six hospitals in West and North Yorkshire, as patients are facing delays of up to 12 hours.
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