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BBC News
05-08-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Warwick Hospital nurse fined 23 times for using staff car park
A nurse received 23 fines for parking at the hospital where she works, despite paying monthly for a staff Bates, from Rugby in Warwickshire, started receiving the multiple fines in June after new parking cameras were updated at Warwick Hospital."I got five parking fines through the post but after another five or six days I got another seven parking fines and in total at the moment we're standing at 23 parking fines. They are £85 each," she Parking, the firm that runs the car park, said the fines had been issued in error and had since been cancelled. Staff at Warwick Hospital can pay for parking permits, which are deducted from their monthly wage and calculated based on their pay Bates has been working at the hospital since 2019 and had no issues with the car park until now. In a statement, South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust said: "We are aware of the issue raised in relation to parking fines issued to a member of our staff. "Our dedicated car parking team has been working with the individual and has investigated the matter thoroughly. Appropriate action is being taken to resolve it." "I emailed Smart Parking to say, look, I've got multiple, multiple parking fines, please can you sort this out? I do pay monthly and this is my car registration," Ms Bates told the BBC."They emailed me back a generic email saying that, sorry, none of the parking fines can be discussed individually, so you will have to appeal for each one separately. So 23 appeals later, I've only got one cancelled so far."It's more than a monthly wage of bills currently that's stacked up and it's getting towards the deadline so I'm hoping I don't have to go to court. I have a job where I've got to put people back together literally every day and then I have to come back to this." In a statement, Smart Parking said: "Ms Bates is registered on the site and used the car park without issue on a number of occasions. "We have recently changed some of technology at the site, and unfortunately this didn't pick up that Ms Bates had already paid and so we issued some charges in error. We have now rectified the error in Ms Bates case and have written to her confirming all charges sent in error have been cancelled." Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Yahoo
04-08-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Terminally ill south Essex patient 'died at home alone after discharge from hospital'
A TERMINALLY ill woman, who was discharged from hospital, died alone in her home and lay undiscovered for days, a councillor has revealed. Thurrock Councillor Cici Manwa, Labour councillor for Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park, spoke out at a meeting of Thurrock Council's adult and health services overview and scrutiny committee. Kevin Garod, anchor programme manager at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. attended the meeting on Thursday to outline the trust's healthcare strategy over the next ten years. It involves more care in the community to alleviate pressure on hospitals. After listening to the strategy, Ms Manwa said: 'Recently I had a bereavement of a family friend of mine. She lived in Tilbury and she was terminally ill with cancer. 'She was in the hospital for quite some time and she came out and she was at home alone. There wasn't really any support or aftercare from when she left the hospital and she ended up dying alone. People didn't even know she was dead until a few days later.' Read more Plans submitted for 22-bed cutting-edge kidney centre at Basildon Hospital More than £11,800 raised to help fund new equipment at Basildon Hospital Building work forces temporary closure of south Essex blood testing clinic Essex man who 'died for ten minutes' to visit blood donor centre and thank staff Ms Manwa added: 'Considering she was somebody who spent her whole life working in Grays in palliative care, helping other people, the manner in which she died was very tragic. 'We're looking at a ten-year plan, but right now it seems as though services don't seem particularly joined up. I'm specifically talking about terminally ill people. People with cancer. They're coming to the end of their life but that dignity should be expected throughout their entire lifetime. I hope that nobody else in Thurrock will have to experience what she had to go through.' Last year, Healthwatch Thurrock published a report on discharges from the three Mid and South Essex NHS Trust (MSE) hospitals at Basildon, Southend and Broomfield. While discharges are handled by hospitals, social workers and NHS staff in communities, the report said there had been an increased number of 'failed' and unsafe discharges' because it is believed some patients are being discharged too soon. Mark Hooper, councillor responsible for health and wellbeing, confirmed the incident wasn't an isolated one. He said: 'I thank councillor Manwa and recently councillor Fox who raised issues around discharge from Southend Hospital to Thurrock. 'Maybe we could have a meeting to look at this because there are number of concerns round discharge from Southend back to Thurrock. This is about the fifth case I've heard in about six months.'
Yahoo
04-08-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Fewer people face 12-hour hospital trolley waits - but numbers still 'appalling'
The NHS Trust that runs York Hospital has welcomed a reduction in the number of people waiting on trolleys for more than 12 hours. York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has seen a more than 60 per cent reduction in the number of people waiting on trolleys for more than 12 hours at its emergency departments in York, Scarborough and Bridlington. But Martin Barkley, chair of the trust, said that the number of people waiting was 'still appalling'. Speaking at the trust's board meeting on Wednesday, July 30, he added: 'It's a third of what it was when I first started here, so, a 66 per cent reduction, which is jolly, jolly good.' Martin Barkley, Chair Of The York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust The number of 12-hour trolley waits across the trust has reduced for the past three months. In June, the number of 12-hour trolley waits was 377, in May, it was 445, and in April, the number of patients waiting on trolleys for 12-hours or more was 628. Last December, 1,057 patients waited on trolleys for more than 12 hours at the trust's hospitals during an 'incredibly tough' winter period. Mr Barkley noted that the number of ambulance arrivals in June had been 'the highest it's ever been', but that there had been a reduction in the number of ambulance handovers that took longer than 45 minutes. York Hospital. Courtesy Numminen/LDRS A report to board members also revealed that the trust had received 'the highest volume of referrals ever seen at the trust, at 3,049, which is the first time the trust has received more than 3,000 referrals in a month, and all cancer sites except for lung saw an increase of referrals'. RECOMMENDED READING: Man says he has lost confidence in York Hospital after 'horrendous' A&E visit New York specialist healthcare facility gets huge boost from major city employer York Hospital starts work on new £8m 'cutting-edge' care facility The national deadline for cancer reporting runs one month behind other data, meaning that the most recent figures are for May. The board was notified that the trust was failing to achieve its monthly improvement trajectory for the 28-day Faster Diagnosis standard, and in the latest available national data from April 2024, the trust ranked 128th out of 137 providers nationally. Mr Barkley said: 'I'm very clear that the first priority of an acute trust is the emergencies, the second priority is cancer, and everything else is third place. 'So, we've absolutely got to prioritise the cancers.'
BBC News
03-08-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Overnight Consett clinic closure faces resident backlash
People have raised concerns over the temporary overnight closure of a hospital's urgent treatment centre (UTC).The 24-hour facility at Shotley Bridge Hospital in Consett, County Durham, has been shut from 00:00 to 08:00 every night since 14 July. County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust said the centre would have reduced opening hours for three months due to difficulties staffing overnight shifts "safely and consistently".The nearest medical facility for urgent overnight help will now be 13 miles (21km) away at University Hospital of North Durham, but one resident Jackie Tupper said: "We deserve local services." UTCs provide urgent medical help for non-life-threatening emergencies, such as cuts and Tupper said she felt Consett was getting the "thin edge of the wedge". She said her husband had been referred to a specialist recently but had to travel an hour away to Darlington to see them. "The Consett area has grown no end in recent years and the community deserves to have every available service here," she said. Another Consett resident Mark Pearson said he has asthma and the overnight closure of the UTC was "worrying for families like mine"."This change affects vulnerable people, especially those without transport or those with ongoing health conditions," he said. He said was not confident the overnight closure of the UTC was temporary. 'Protect daytime care' The trust said between January and June this year it had shut the UTC overnight 65 times due to staffing also said on average just five people attended the site each night.A spokesperson said staff shortages had risen this year due to a combination of vacancies, sickness and maternity said the decision to temporarily shut the site overnight was so "daytime care could be protected"."We'll be reviewing the impact of this change closely and listening to feedback from local people and partners throughout the closure period," they added. Follow BBC North East on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
21-07-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Cornwall minor injuries unit shuts for summer due to lack of staff
A minor injuries unit has temporarily closed in Cornwall due to staff shortages, health bosses have Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has said Launceston Minor Injuries Unit would remain shut for the remainder of the trust said it did not have enough staff to safely provide a seven-day-a-week Gilbert, from Healthwatch Cornwall, said: "Any loss of service is detrimental for residents and to tourists." Ms Gilbert said she hoped "other plans or provisions" were put in trust said it had recruited vacant posts, but new staff would need to complete their mandatory induction and said it had "explored a range of options to offer alternative services in the area" but it had not been existing staff would be temporarily transferred to facilities in Stratton, Liskeard or unit was also temporarily closed in 2021 due to illness in the pandemic and in 2022, again due to staff shortages.
