Is the Royal Liverpool Hospital a royal mess? Or have the nightmare reports been overblown?
We break down the capacity issues causing a ‘crisis’ at Liverpool’s major hospital
Dear readers — anyone reading the recent reports coming out of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital could be forgiven for thinking it’s situated in the middle of a war zone. Recent Echo reports have described utterly chaotic scenes; patients left for days on trolleys in the hospital’s corridors and exasperated staff attempting to sound the alarm.
Clearly, there are big issues at the Royal, which was only completed in 2022 after a protracted and painstaking development process (asbestos, cracks, structural issues, bad weather and collapse of contractor Carillion all featured in an ever-worsening comedy of errors). But now the swanky new hospital is finally here, the question has become one of capacity. Are the struggles facing the Royal merely a function of an NHS that is creaking at the seams, or a fault in the design of the building itself? In today’s edition, Lisa tries to answer that question.
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