Claim: Between 300 and 500 excess deaths a week are occurring due to delays in A&E;.
Fact-check: How many excess deaths are A&E delays causing? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is an estimate from the royal college of emergency medicine for the total number of deaths due to long a&e waits. it's based on limited data and makes a number of assumptions, so we can't say for sure how accurate it is. but some other experts have calculated broadly similar estimates or told full fact the figure is plausible.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Dr Fergus Brown
Date published: 2023-01-23T00:00:00