– as The Press can reveal that no fewer than 1,421 patients were kept waiting in York’s A&E unit for 12 hours or more in just one month recently.
That figure was sharply up on the 1,011 patients forced to wait for 12 hours or more in York A&E in the same period a year previously.
In response to a series of Freedom of Information questions tabled by the Press, York Hospitals Trust managers have also admitted that:
- 499 York Hospitals Trust nurses or other medical staff have taken time off for stress or other mental health-related reasons in the last six months
- In a bid to plug staff vacancies, the hospitals trust spent £9.5 million on expensive Agency nurses and a further £18.6 million on ‘bank’ nurses in the last year – as well as more than £1.9 million recruiting nurses and other medical staff internationally.
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