For more than ten years, the British public and free NHS Health Service System has been suffering from severe austerity and then from the fallout of the pandemic, what has left it completely exhausted.

Several medical organisations have warned of the crisis affecting Britain's emergency services, with many patients dying due to inadequate or untimely access to care, and called on the government to respond to this growing social malaise.

The crisis regularly makes headlines in British newspapers and resurfaced when the organisation representing emergency staff, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, estimated that between 300 and 500 patients die every week due to a lack of care in emergency departments, especially long waiting lists.

Hospital officials downplayed the significance of these figures, but the vice president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine defended these estimates .

"If you are on the ground, you know that this is a long-term problem, not a short-term one," Ian Higginson told the BBC, rejecting the hypothesis of temporary difficulties.

Last week, one in five patients taken by ambulance in England had to wait more than an hour for emergency admission. Tens of thousands of patients had to wait more than 12 hours before receiving care in emergency departments.

The government attributes the current situation to the consequences of the covid-19 pandemic and winter epidemics such as influenza, and emphasizes that it wants to make more efforts for hospitals, but recently launched a very strict budget savings policy.

This is how the requests for increases submitted by nurses and nurses who carried out the first strike action in December were rejected, while inflation exceeded 10% months ago.

The British Medical Association, a federation of carers, joined the alarmist statements .

"It is not true that the country does not have the potential to fix this mess,"its president Phil Banfield said in a statement. "It is a political choice and patients are dying unnecessarily because of this choice,"he added.

He considered that the current situation "cannot continue" and demanded "immediate" action by the government.

In his New Year wishes, British prime minister Rishi Sunak noted that the British health system is among his priorities, stressing that his government is taking "decisive" measures to reduce delays in the public health system.