The shocking state of the county's A&E waiting times have been raised with the Prime Minister.
The situation has seen 14,524 people waiting for more than 24 hours at A&Es in Telford and Shrewsbury in 2023 – compared to just 597 in 2019.
Those figures, which came from a Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information request, also showed that in 2023 more than 10,000 of those waiting over 24 hours were pensioners.
The situation has seen 14,524 people waiting for more than 24 hours at A&Es in Telford and Shrewsbury in 2023 – compared to just 597 in 2019.
Those figures, which came from a Liberal Democrat Freedom of Information request, also showed that in 2023 more than 10,000 of those waiting over 24 hours were pensioners.
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00:00 Last year in Shropshire, 10,000 people waited for more than 24 hours in A&E. That's 10,000
00:11 people over 65 waiting on hard plastic chairs or in trolleys in our accident and emergency
00:17 department. The Prime Minister tells us he's got a plan for the NHS, but what people in
00:22 North Shropshire want to know is how long they are going to have to wait for him to
00:26 get on and fix the issues where we are.
00:30 Well Mr Speaker, with the record funding that we're putting into the NHS, our urgent emergency
00:35 care plan is delivering more ambulances, more beds, but also faster discharge through our
00:40 hospitals to speed the flow. And that plan is working, of course there's more to do,
00:45 but this winter we saw ambulance and A&E waiting times improve from the year before, for the
00:51 first time in many years, and if we stick to the plan, we'll continue to deliver improvement
00:55 for her constituents and everyone else.