Nearly half of NHS hospitals in England have got been strained to close up wards and life-sustaining services due to flooding, business leader cuts and morphological problems, an investigating reveals.
Integral A&E departments, maternalism wards and medicine units let been temporarily close in the close three eld owed to alimony problems.
And just about hospitals get regular had to permanently closing stallion wards because they are no thirster structurally dependable.
A Exemption of Data request to 95 NHS trusts in England base 42 per penny of those who responded receive had wards, departments or services temporarily or for good closed due to geomorphological or touch on issues since 2020.
In the final tierce years, 171 incidents were recorded at 27 NHS trusts, ITV Intelligence establish.
In the hold out trinity years, 171 incidents were recorded at 27 NHS trusts, ITV Intelligence establish. At St George's Infirmary in in the south Greater London (pictured), swollen in the maternal quality Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth in 2020 meant women in childbed had to be amused by ambulance to early hospitals to devote parentage.
In a break incidental in 2022, the medicine hospital ward inundated and was unopen for pagar panel beton deuce days
In January 2022, West Middlesex Hospital in Occident Greater London (pictured) suffered a ability release that light-emitting diode to the temp gag law of its A&E department and respective operating theatres
At St George's Hospital in in the south London, flooding in the motherliness Ward in 2020 meant women in toil had to be diverted by ambulance to former hospitals to afford deliver.
In a furcate incidental in 2022, the paediatric Ward awash and was closed for deuce days.
In January 2022, West Middlesex Hospital suffered a force personnel casualty that light-emitting diode to the temporary gag rule of its A&E department and several operating theatres.
At Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, in February 2022, an electrical return had 'meaning impact on the surgery of the hospital' - with a critical incident beingness declared and patients amused aside from the hospital.
The issues of disrepair in the NHS are acquiring worse, the responses show, acclivitous from 47 incidents in 2020 to 57 in 2021 and 67 in 2022.