pregnant women Water leaks, power stricken maternity units are giving birth Outage, and faulty equipment, bare crisis laying NHS Hospital buildings.
A new report for NHS England More than 14,000 security incidents have been marked in maternity units in the last three years, Fuel-filling disruption, such as delay in planned C-section.
The report warns a “unsafe” status of some hospital maternity wings, which exposes chronic, overheating and “often broken” equipment, and also found that at least 7 percent of the buildings are “threatens of adjacent breakdown”.
Also Highlights congested wardsSome rooms that were very small to get pregnant women An emergency, and safety concerns, such as CCTV deficiency, and areas without natural light or ventilation.
NHS England Said: “In the last 3 years, the examples reported formally in maternity and newborn property are 14,519, where clinical services have been disrupted or service distribution has been affected as a direct result of poor physical conditions.”
Some seven percent of the wards were running “a serious risk of adjacent breakdown”, the worst category D, while 42 percent was considered to be category C, meaning that they require immediate replacement or repair within three years.
London The highest percentage of category C and D buildings, followed by southwest (56 percent), North East and Yorkshire (47 percent), North West (45 percent), Midlands (45 percent), South East (42 percent), and East (41 percent of England).
“Important clinical time is lost to property related issues, such as power outages, water leaks and faulty nurse call systems. It puts additional pressure on employees already stretched to provide high quality and safe care, and can lead to a direct process delay, such as planned caesarean classes.”
Data of April 2020 and March 2023 revealed that the most common reason For disintegration of services There were issues with water, sewerage and drainage, which were responsible for 5,341 incidents; The second was ventilation and heating, in which 2,913 incidents were recorded; And the third was structural issues like leaks and floods, with 1,909 records.
A separate data set in the report suggested that 30 percent of the units did not follow space requirements, with less than 50 percent of the maternity units quite large enough to accommodate the priests, and only 35 percent confirmed that they had private places within A&E that faced the child’s loss. The latter had an important recommendation in an NHS review Pregnancy Damage care.
Other concerns identified in the report include:
- The rooms that are very small to safely remove patients in emergency, and which are too tight to fit the essential tools and employees.
- Crowd wards and nurseries with insufficient space between cot that increases the risk of infection and makes it difficult to take care of newborns;
- Inadequate comfort and break spaces for employees, including lack of overnight rest areas for advisors;
- And there are no sufficient delivery beds to meet the growing demand
After review, NHS England Said that it will allocate funds to NHS Trusts to address “important” risks.
This has asked NHS leaders to review the data for their maternity buildings and ensure that the campuses meet safe standards.