Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital's A&E sees 8,000 more patients
Eight thousand extra patients visited New Cross Hospital's A&E unit in 2014/15 than the year before, new figures have revealed.
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Attendances rocketed around seven per cent as bosses struggled to cope with a huge influx of patients.
The trust that runs New Cross was slapped with heavy fines during the financial year as a result of not seeing enough patients within four hours.
In total 117,000 patients visited A&E between April 2014 and March 2015, up from 109,000 in 2013/14.
A new £38 million Emergency Centre opens at the hospital later this year. It includes an A&E unit three times bigger than the current one.
