A number of hospitals have declared critical incidents in recent days, meaning they cannot function as usual due to extraordinary pressure.
On Sunday, RCEM president Dr Adrian Boyle said between 300 and 500 people were dying every week as a result of delays to emergency care.
which calculated that every 82 patients whose hospital admission is delayed by more than six hours results in one death within 30 days. In November, more than 37,000 people waited more than 12 hours in A&E for a decision to be admitted to a hospital department, according to data from NHS England. This was more than triple the equivalent figure for November 2021, when an estimated 10,646 waited longer than 12 hours.
He said adding all these together left "25,000 of the 100,000 NHS beds" filled with either medically fit patients waiting to be discharged and people suffering with either Covid or the flu.However, the chief strategy officer urged people in need of medical attention to "come forward", but reminded patients to "use the best route" of support.
"We're increasing NHS capacity by the equivalent of 7,000 beds, spending an extra £500m to speed up hospital discharges and improve capacity, and providing an extra £150m for the ambulance service," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "I sat from 6pm until the early hours of the morning when I was told I needed to stay so they could remove my appendix urgently at the start of the day," he told the BBC.
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