Shropshire's hospitals are heading towards the winter months already ‘gridlocked’, with 150 patients blocking beds.
Sara Biffen, acting chief operating officer at the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust , says that both Telford and Shrewsbury hospitals have ‘overcrowded’ emergency departments.
“We’ve got an overcrowded emergency departments and patients who don’t need to be in hospital,” said Mrs Biffen. “We need to stop patients coming into our hospitals who don’t need to come and can access services elsewhere. Also how do we improve our flow from our bed base so we get our patients out much quicker?”
“We can’t get away from the fact that we are admitting patients that we don’t need to admit because there’s not an alternative elsewhere and we’re not discharging patients as quickly as we should do,” added Mrs Biffen. Councillors posed a set of burning questions in the meeting to health bosses – including Simon Whitehouse, chief executive of NHS Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin.
“There’s absolutely a commitment for us going forward in terms of the relationship we have with individual and the joint committee,” said Mr Whitehouse.
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