FOI reveals 14,000 Lothian hospital patients treated in ‘wrong’ ward
MORE than 14,000 patients in Lothian have been treated in the “wrong” ward in the past two years, according to figures released by Labour today. Shortages of specialist beds sometimes mean patients...
View ArticleFOI reveals Sussex NHS trust paid out more than £4m in severance payments
A MENTAL health trust has paid out more than £4 million in golden goodbyes to staff in four years, The Argus can reveal. More than 100 staff members received additional payments beyond their statutory...
View ArticleFOI reveals Drugs, alcohol fuel 21 per cent rise in Edinburgh paramedic...
EMERGENCY crews have reported a 21 per cent rise in drug or alcohol-related call-outs across over the festive period. Paramedics attended 343 incidents across the Capital between December 1 and...
View ArticleFOI reveals Bedford health body spent £300k on ‘luxury’ offices
A health body with the worst deficit in the country has been slammed as “disgraceful” for forking out nearly £300k a year to lease ‘luxury’ office space within an historic country estate. Bedfordshire...
View ArticleFOI reveals 174,000 operations have been cancelled in Welsh hospitals since 2013
More than 174,000 operations have been cancelled at Welsh hospitals in the past three financial years, it has been revealed. The statistics, which came from a Freedom of Information request by Plaid...
View ArticleFOI reveals Edinburgh ambulance crews miss targets for heart attack calls
HEART attack victims in the Capital are having to wait longer than they should for an ambulance, new figures have revealed. Emergency crews are meant to reach such patients within eight minutes and...
View ArticleFOI reveals Liverpool fire crews late in attending 600 serious fires
Merseyside fire engines have been late arriving at more than 600 serious fires in the last four years, the ECHO can reveal. The fire service has been delayed getting to a total of 607 primary fires,...
View ArticleFOI reveals 1,000 patients forced to wait 12 hours at Walsall Manor Hospital...
The 1,016 people who had to wait over half a day last year is more than the previous two years combined, where 817 people were left with the marathon wait. Some months have seen over 1,000 per cent...
View ArticleFOI reveals compensation claims after Yorkshire’s sonic boom
The Ministry of Defence has been hit with a string of compensation claims after homes across Yorkshire were shaken by deafening sonic booms when two RAF jets broke the sound barrier during a...
View ArticleFOI reveals ambulance spends £1m paying off top managers, before rehiring them
A freedom of information request showed the East of England Ambulance Service Trust spent £922,984 in pay-offs, an average of more than £150,000 each. Despite being laid-off as a part of a...
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