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23/10/07 : Royal Berks A&E "best in the country"
Reading's Royal Berkshire Hospital has won praise for getting its waiting times in Accident & Emergency below those of any of the other 154 emergency departments across the country. Fewer than one in 200 of the 33799 patients who went to A&E between April and June this year had to wait for longer than the Government target of 4 hours.
Anneliese Dodds, Labour's parliamentary spokesperson for Reading East, says: "The Tories want to scrap these targets, but hitting the four-hour target for A&E marks a real difference in patient care. As do targets for consultant appointments for suspected cancers, or for waiting times for operations, or for reducing deaths from heart attacks. Scrapping those targets would just give the Tories an excuse to cut spending on the NHS, which is their real aim."
"Labour has invested massively in the Royal Berks," Anneliese goes on, "virtually rebuilding the hospital and funding 74 more consultants, 125 more doctors and 285 more nurses and midwives today than did the Tories. Results like these show that the people of Reading have been getting value for money, and I would like to congratulate staff and managers at the Royal Berks on their behalf. Under Labour, we have a hospital we can really be proud of."
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