London NHS trust says rise in 12-hour waits in A&E partly due to mental health patients bed blocking

London NHS trust says rise in 12-hour waits in A&E partly due to mental health patients bed blocking

London North West University Healthcare (LNWH) says it also sees more ambulances arriving at its hospitals than any other trust in the country

NHSE’s three-year healthcare plan ‘offers no meaningful roadmap’ to tackle long waits in EDs

A plan which outlines NHS England’s priorities for the next three years ‘offers no meaningful roadmap’ to reduce dangerous long waits in Emergency Departments. That’s the assessment of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine following the publication of NHS England’s Medium Term Planning Framework 2026/27 to 2028/29 which was released last week (24 October 2025). It contains a range of pledges and ambitions for the healthcare sector over the nex…