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PATIENTS have been forced to wait more than 11 hours as the Royal Bolton Hospital's accident and emergency department reaches crisis point.
Hospital bosses say doctors and nurses are facing huge pressures after seeing a massive rise in emergency admissions over the Christmas period.
Non-emergency operations have also been cancelled to free up beds.
A hospital spokesman said: "In common with many hospitals nationally, this year has seen such high levels of emergency admissions that there are backlogs in A&Es while staff find beds for patients.
"At the Royal Bolton some patients are having to wait for up to eleven-and-a-half hours from the decision to admit them until they go to a bed on a ward."
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...as_patients_forced_to_wait_11_hours_for_beds/
Hospital bosses say doctors and nurses are facing huge pressures after seeing a massive rise in emergency admissions over the Christmas period.
Non-emergency operations have also been cancelled to free up beds.
A hospital spokesman said: "In common with many hospitals nationally, this year has seen such high levels of emergency admissions that there are backlogs in A&Es while staff find beds for patients.
"At the Royal Bolton some patients are having to wait for up to eleven-and-a-half hours from the decision to admit them until they go to a bed on a ward."
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news...as_patients_forced_to_wait_11_hours_for_beds/