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Liverpool Women's Hospital In Major Threat Of Closure - Services To Be Spread Across Several Hospitals In a major headline, the Liverpool Echo has unknowingly highlighted a major and serious risk to pregnant women about to give birth, due to the lack of capacity in ALL Liverpool's acute hospitals, with corridors now being declared as official hospital wards, certainly in Aintree Hospital; with standard care in corridors now becoming the norm.
Of course we all know that the under resourced state of hospitals is not only the case in Merseyside, but across the whole of the NHS Hospital estate in England. The Echo has highlighted the experience of a Liverpool celebrity at Aintree Hospital NHS Trust, whose management is shared across several hospitals, which has been a common experience since Covid of NHS patients across the whole of merseyside, which if the closure of the Liverpool Women's Hospital could very well become the experience of mother's and their babies. Full facts about the closure of the Liverpool Women's can be found by clicking on the image above right. Below is a quoted version of the Echo's report, with a link to the original news item accessed by clicking on the image below, left: Merseyside Radio Legend 'degraded' As He Is Left In Hospital Toilet For Hours Former Radio City breakfast presenter Kev Seed says he was left feeling "degraded" after being kept in a hospital toilet for hours following days spent on a trolley in a corridor at Aintree Hospital.
On Monday evening, Kev fell at his home while trying to reach his stairlift. “I fell backwards and the trolley landed on top of me,” he explained. After activating his Careline alarm, an ambulance was called, and he was taken to Aintree Hospital. Describing the emergency department as "horrendous," Kev said he was immediately placed on a trolley in a busy corridor. “The trolley is uncomfortable, and people are constantly rushing past. The corridors are now classed as wards—this has sadly become normal. I really feel for the staff—they’re doing their best.” Kev remained in the corridor from Monday until Thursday. However, he said the most distressing part came when he was told he would finally be moved to a ward—only to be wheeled into a hospital bathroom with a toilet and shower. “They said this was where I’d be staying,” Kev recalled. “I thought, 'Are you serious? Where would visitors even sit—on the toilet?' It felt really degrading.” To his disbelief, staff even brought him a meal to eat in the bathroom. “I refused. Eventually, after more than four hours, they moved me to a proper ward.” He added: “People need to know what’s going on in our hospitals. We all know things are bad, but being left in a toilet for hours is just beyond belief. It’s honestly a joke.” In response to Kev’s experience, Dr. Peter Turkington, Executive Managing Director at Aintree University Hospital, said: “I am very sorry that there are some elements of Mr. Seed’s care that have fallen below expected standards on this occasion.” It is the opinion of many NHS support groups, medical staff, and a consequence of this Labour Governments policies of mirroring the US healthcare system as a replacement for the NHS in England; that the headlined scenario of women giving birth in hospital corridors, and even toilets, is most definitely a major risk as England's maternity services continue to decline with an increase of deaths during childbirth of mothers and their babies.
Source: Liverpool Echo / Save Liverpool Women's Hospital Campaign / Cheshire and Merseyside ICB / unionsafety
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