New figures out today reveal that Southport Hospital’s A&E was nearly 15% behind the 4 hour treatment target for A&E during December.
The statistics show that across NHS England the average was nearly 10% below the 95% target for December, the worst figures since the target was introduced in 2004.
Locally, the situation was even worse with Southport Hospital falling even further behind at 80.3%.
Southport Labour had recently raised concerns about the pressures the hospital and its A&E were facing after 133 patients had been forced to wait in ambulances for between 30 minutes to an hour, with 60 of them over an hour. Bed occupancy rates had also hit 100%.
Those concerns were dismissed by local MP Damien Moore as “scaremongering” but these latest figures show that concern was well placed says Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Southport, Liz Savage:
“The figures out today reveal that far from “scaremongering” as Damien Moore claimed, we are right to draw attention to the pressures Southport Hospital is facing. Its A&E department is under tremendous strain and for Damien Moore to essentially ignore those pressures and make bold claims that he’s confident that “those who required medical treatment were seen to efficiently” is to ignore the underlying problem.”
“The problem is not with the staff who are doing a fantastic job in the most trying of circumstances, the problem is with the chronic lack of resources supplied by this Tory administration to the NHS to deal with the demands placed on it. We are right to be worried, I expect an awful lot of people are, except our local MP it seems. “
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