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630 12-hour waits in Harrogate's A&E last month

Thursday, 16 January 2025 10:31

The latest NHS figures have been revealed for the Harrogate district.

The latest NHS figures show that there were 630 waits of 12 hours or longer in Harrogate's A&Es last month.

The figures also showed that 12.20% of waits for people in Harrogate and Knaresborough who attended A&E in December were 12 hours or longer from the time they arrived.

Local Liberal Democrat MP Tom Gordon said the government is “sleeping at the wheel”, having failed to grip the crisis in Harrogate’s health service, putting patients at risk.

He’s called on the Health Secretary to come forward with an emergency plan to rescue Harrogate’s A&E from this crisis and protect patients who are suffering as a result of these long and dangerous delays.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has previously said that long waits in A&E are estimated to have contributed to 14,000 deaths in England in 2023.

Tom Gordon said:

“It’s a scandal that these dangerous delays have become normalised here. A&Es are at breaking point after years of the previous Conservative government’s shameful neglect and patients are paying the price.

“The new government looks to be asleep at the wheel and has completely failed to get a grip on the winter crisis. We now need to see Ministers step up and finally begin to tackle this ongoing disaster.

“That means bringing forward an emergency plan to immediately protect patients from the consequences of these long delays."

He added:

"This response must include an urgent expansion of the number of hospital beds available in Harrogate and Knaresborough and a pandemic-style emergency recruitment campaign to bring staff out of retirement and back into our local health services workforce.”

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