Staff at Liverpool hospitals are “struggling day-to-day” with bosses aware of the “frustration” at the difficulties surrounding the NHS crisis.
Hospitals across the country are facing unprecedented demand owing to pressures around social care and a lack of beds leaving patients lining corridors and ambulances being left to queue up outside. The increased intensity around health services has coincided with the relocation of patients into the new Royal Liverpool Hospital in October, five years later than planned.
The pressures on the city’s hospitals was discussed at the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust board. In an update to members, James Sumner, chief executive, wrote how the Trust is “currently facing significant pressures in urgent and emergency care, across sites.
