Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital fined £95k for A&E wait times
New Cross Hospital has been fined more than £95,000 for the delays patients faced in A&E.
The fine for March relates to the Wolverhampton hospital not meeting the national targets over four hour waiting times.
It was revealed in the Trusts's quality and performance report, which showed there had been an additional 1,742 people going to A&E in March.
This was an increase of 14.6 per cent on the previous month. In the first 13 days of April, the Trust saw an additional 504 attendances in A&E than they did at the same time last year - an overall increase of 10.5 per cent.
So far in 2016, there have been 6,380 additional attendances at A&E in comparison to last year.
The number impacted waiting times at the hospital, meaning that only 86.23 per cent of people waited up to four hours in the department, with the Trust's target of 95 per cent not reached. This resulted in a fine of £95,280.
Kevin Stringer, Chief Finance Officer for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, said: "The fine is for not meeting the national targets over four hour waiting times. We can bid for this money back against quality schemes and we will do so."
The Trust is also expected to be fined for the amount of time patients have been left waiting for an ambulance to arrive.
They predict they will be fined £11,800 on the basis of 49 patients waiting between 30 and 60 minutes for treatment by ambulance.
