Amid claims hospitals are falling into disrepair due to a lack of funding, new findings have exposed that 55 NHS Trusts experienced 456 sewage leaks over the last 12 months in what has been described as 'a national scandal.'
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, which includes St James’s University Hospital, was one of the worst affected by sewage leaks
One of the worst Trusts affected by leaks was Leeds Teaching Hospital, which recorded 105. North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals were close behind with 80.‘This is a national scandal,’ said Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey. ‘Our country’s hospitals are falling apart after years of underinvestment and neglect.’
Staff reporting a sewage leak in an A&E department of The Princess Alexandra Trust Hospital in Harlow wrote: ‘Corridor closed due to sewage leaking out of the toilet, going down the corridor and seeping into the waiting room. Bad, offensive smell, unsafe department as water couldn’t be contained.They also pointed out the danger posed to patients by the leak, noting one person ‘collapsed in waiting room doors [and] nearly fell into water’.
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