More patients were waiting on trolleys for over 12 hours at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General than at any other hospital trust in England, the latest figures reveal.
A report to bosses at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Trust (UHBW) says 844 people were not admitted to a bed within the acceptable time limit across its sites in February, “which was the worst in England and the highest number of breaches recorded since the start of the pandemic”. And more than three-quarters of ambulance handovers exceeded the 30-minute target, the report said.
A trust board meeting was told overworked staff were exhausted to the point of tears and there was a risk that those being asked to take on extra duties to help get through the backlog of waiting lists – including 386 patients waiting over two years for the start of treatment – could “become ill”.
