The Royal Oldham Hospital has seen five times the England average of planned operation cancellations in the last week because of A&E pressure on bed availability and because 58 Royal Oldham Hospital beds are occupied by people ready to return home but insufficient external care service provision means they can’t be discharged. Emergency Patients waiting between 4 & 12 hours for a bed at The Royal Oldham Hospital is currently 4 times the England average.
The current Oldham Labour Party’s multiple bedroom house building policies in areas blighted by poverty, overcrowding, worklessness & poor health will only see this situation increase every winter as the population increases beyond service capacity and living standards fall or remain static.
08/01/2014