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Ambulance delays causing ‘significant risk of harm’
Private letters to Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, seen by the BBC through a Freedom of Information request, have shown that the Worcestershire Royal Hospital’s patients face ‘significant risk of harm on a daily basis’.
The papers claim that the risk of harm is the result of delays getting people off ambulances and into the site, with Mark Docherty, director of clinical commissioning for West Midlands Ambulance Service, saying that during the first 16 days of the month, 215 ambulances had spent more than an hour outside the hospital.
Docherty continued to stress that the situation at Worcestershire Royal Hospital is now at a level of concern that ‘requires immediate and radical action if we are to avoid a catastrophic situation’.
Despite all NHS trusts expected to deal with 95 per cent of patients who attend A&E within four hours, the BBC understands that on the specific date of 16 February Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust dealt with 47 per cent in four hours.
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