In recent years that the NHS has been put under an unprecedented amount of stress. The Covid pandemic saw Nightingale Hospitals having to be built, testing centres created and ordinary buildings and shop spaces transformed into vaccination hubs.
And in recent months ambulance workers and nursing staff strikes have added to the pressure being felt by the NHS, as it continues to work its way through backlogs of patient appointments.
At the end of 2022, Bristol Live reported that the highest proportion of patients waiting more than an hour to be handed over, in the week prior to December 30, was 54 per cent at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston (360 out of 666 patients). This NHS Trust topped the list for hospital patients waiting more than an hour to be handed over by ambulance staff.
