Emergency admissions and delayed transfers grow despite national efforts

Emergency, service redesign, A&E

The number of hospital emergency admissions rose 2.8 per cent in 2016-17 to 4.3 million, with March this year seeing the largest ever number in a single month, analysis reveals.

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