A&E patients waiting more than 12 hours for a bed - Shropshire hospital delays are second worst in the country
Shropshire's hospitals were the second worst in the country for the number of emergency patients waiting more than 12 hours for a bed last month, the NHS has confirmed.
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Fresh figures for A&E attendances during December show the scale of the issues facing Shropshire's emergency departments - for both staff and patients.
It comes as a new study from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), first revealed by the Health Service Journal, outlines the potential dangers, and increased risk of death, for patients waiting more than 12 hours at A&E.
Its findings state that when compared with patients requiring non-immediate care who spent two hours in A&E, the odds of post-discharge death were more than two-times higher for those who spent 12 hours in A&E.
The NHS data covering A&E attendances for last month shows that a total of 1,494 people attending the departments in Shropshire waited longer than 12 hours for a bed after a decision to admit was taken - at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and Telford's Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), both managed by Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH).
The only trust where more patients waited that long was University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) where 1,894 waited more than 12 hours.
