Nottingham University Hospitals Trust will benefit from the expansion of the urgent treatment centre at Queens Medical Centre, the Labour Government have announced.
Bespoke plans being drafted in Trusts with highest rates of corridor care – bringing the best of the NHS to bear on some of the country’s worst offenders.
Specialist teams working with Trusts to help meet the Labour government’s target of ending corridor care by the end of this Parliament.
Thanks to the Labour Government, NHS leaders in trusts across England with the highest levels of corridor care, are getting specialised and tailored support as part of plans to eradicate corridor care by the end of this Parliament – delivering on the Party’s manifesto commitment to build an NHS fit for the future.
Expert teams are being deployed to the most affected hospitals, providing bespoke clinical support to leadership staff, as early data shows the majority of corridor care is concentrated in a small number of NHS trusts.
The Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) team are supporting leaders in the most affected hospitals to learn from those NHS trusts which have already made significant inroads into reducing corridor care this year – all at a time when real progress is being made across urgent and emergency care, including the shortest A&E waiting times in four years and ambulance response times the fastest for half a decade, despite record demand and a gruelling winter.
The announcement came amidst calls from the Labour Party to Nigel Farage to abandon his plan to dismantle the NHS as we know it, warning that it could force British taxpayers to pay thousands of pounds for essential emergency treatment.
Bombshell analysis exposed that under Nigel Farage’s push for an insurance-based healthcare system, like they have abroad, working people could be hit with eye-watering upfront costs just to access urgent A&E care.
The specialist GIRFT teams provide tailored support to each hospital – including identifying how to improve discharge and flow, helping trusts to better understand their own data so they can improve predicting when surges in demand may appear and supporting clinical leaders in improved decision making.
Alongside introducing a new, measurable definition of corridor care, the targeted support is the latest in a series of steps the Labour government is taking to drive urgent improvements and show it is serious about delivering for patients.
This will help ease pressure on A&E departments by ensuring more patients are treated in the right setting. Reducing waiting times and improving patient flow through hospitals to tackle corridor care.
Juliet Campbell MP for Broxtowe said:
“This expansion of urgent care services will be transformative for residents in Broxtowe helping ensure more people get the care they deserve.
“This is a vital step toward easing pressure on hospitals and ending this scourge on our community.
“I was elected on a promise to help get our NHS back on its feet after 14 years of Tory neglect, and this is exactly the kind of support our local hospital needs to see.”
Labour’s Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting said:
“For too long, the normalisation of corridor care has been baked into parts of our NHS – it’s unacceptable, undignified and exactly why this government is shifting the dial for patients and staff.
“We’re sending in specialist teams of experts to identify the causes in some of the worst offending trusts and swiftly rectify the problems they find.
“That, plus new and expanded urgent care centres will mean patients are treated more quickly and in the right place, while easing pressure on busy A&Es to care for the most serious cases.
“We are cutting waiting times and moving away from unacceptable corridor care, building an NHS that treats patients with dignity.