\n And what a positive story, focussing as it did on the elimination of \u2018corridor care\u2019 at Watford General Hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\n Before becoming the town\u2019s MP, I worked in health and social care and remember the documentary on Channel 4 with undercover footage showing patients lining the corridors languishing on trolley after trolley, crammed nose-to-tail.\n<\/p>\n
\n Those pictures got another airing, but this time, it wasn\u2019t demonstrating the here and now, but instead how it was. Clear corridors replacing cluttered and chaotic ones.\n<\/p>\n
\n MP Matt Turmaine praises Watford General Hospital for eliminating corridor care (Image: Matt Turmaine)\n<\/p>\n
\n I know Age UK have been campaigning on the issue and the government is pledged to eradicate corridor care by 2029.\n<\/p>\n
\n That change has clearly and irrefutably happened here already.\n<\/p>\n
\n I pay tribute to the award-winning staff and management at West Herts Hospitals Trust who run Watford for delivering the mother of all turnarounds which was rightly highlighted on the national news.\n<\/p>\n
\n I know that having cracked it, nobody will be resting on their laurels.\n<\/p>\n
\n Also featuring in ITV\u2019s report was the excellent news about improved ambulance handover times at Watford General.\n<\/p>\n
\n With Parliament in recess, I had actually heard about this on a visit to Watford Ambulance station on May 1.\n<\/p>\n
\n Neill Moloney, chief executive of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust informed me with pride about the part paramedics play in providing advanced information to A&E pre-arrival and their contribution to curing corridor care.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another glittering jewel in the crown of the NHS is the fantastic reduction in waiting times, at A&E, for cancer care and operations.\n<\/p>\n
\n Positive change from Labour and only made possible by dedicated NHS professionals. I thank and salute them all.\n<\/p>\n
Matt Turmaine is Labour MP for Watford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And what a positive story, focussing as it did on the elimination of \u2018corridor care\u2019 at Watford General…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}