By The Health Foundation (2018)
This report looks at trends in emergency admissions over the past decade. It finds that one in three patients admitted to hospital in England as an emergency in 2015/16 had five or more health conditions. This is up from one in ten in 2006/7. It calculates the financial implications for the NHS in England and finds that the cost of emergency admissions in 2016/17 was £17 billion, up £5.5 billion in ten years.