Child 'wheeled through hospital loading bay due to failed lifts'

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Unite said issues with the lifts had been raised for months

A child at a large Merseyside hospital had to be wheeled outside through a loading bay due to faulty lifts.

Derek Jones, regional officer for Unite, told the LDRS staff had approached him regularly including about one incident in April whereby a child being treated in the hospital taken from the main theatre on the ground floor through the hospital into its education centre, down a lift into its fracture clinic to then be taken outside through a goods loading bay to get into the basement of the Wirral Womens and Childrens’ hospital to take a lift up to the wards there.

He said: “Staff have been complaining to the trust for a significant length of time, several months that the lifts have been intermittently going off and breaking down and it’s left a limited amount of lifts to be used.” “Due to their high usage in a busy hospital, and the age of our buildings, there are times when lifts have been out of use but there are always other lifts available in those circumstances, and a fast response has ensured they have been back up and running as soon as possible.

Wirral Council NHS

 

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