Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital fined more than £200k for failings
New Cross Hospital will be fined more than £200,000 for falling short of national standards in October.
Staff failed to see enough A&E patients within four hours of their arrival during the month and too many patients did not receive specialist treatment within 18 weeks.
In total the trust was fined around £150,000 for its 'referral to treatment' performance, with just 80 per cent of patients treated within 18 weeks – short of the 92 per cent target.
It saw just 91 per cent of A&E patients within four hours, with the national standard being 95 per cent.
And the trust will be fined £16,000 for not getting ambulances out onto the road from A&E quick enough, making a total of £222,300 for October alone.
A report by chief operating officer Gwen Nuttall said the referral to treatment failure was due to a 'continuation of deliberate failure to treat long-waiting patients'.
