Bed shortages and handover delays in Worcestershire mean more patients are not being treated in wards.
A bigger A&E is not expected to open at Worcestershire Royal Hospital until May next year
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust says it is 45 beds short, with 20 people a night waiting in A&E.The situation has prompted a call for an emergency to be declared locally. A new 30-bed, short-stay unit at the Royal, which opened in July, had made "little to no impact" on tackling waiting times and handover delays, said Paul Brennan, deputy chief executive of the trust which also runs Alexandra Hospital in Redditch.
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