A&E

American

Trademark.

Arts and Entertainment: a cable television channel.

A & E British

abbreviation

Accident and Emergency (department in hospitals)

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Example Sentences

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"It has some cubicles, but not very many, but for the many people who were in A&E and in that area they would need three times the amount of cubicles."

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A woman who was told to go to A&E during a critical incident at Nottingham's hospitals said she saw people "in beds in every corridor" she came across.

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She was then advised to go to A&E to get a tetanus jab and for someone to assess the wound.

From BBC

One in 10 patients who attended major A&E units in England last year spent more than 12 hours there, a BBC analysis shows.

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At one – Nottingham University Hospital – managers warned there were patients on corridors and apologised for the "significant and unacceptable delays" in A&E.

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