Overcrowding in A&E departments and corridor care is linked to hundreds of deaths every week in the UK, according to a new study.
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that, for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days rose by 1%.
The work was carried out at 134 A&Es in Wales, Northern Ireland and England last year, and was presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress in France.