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About one-half of NHS hospitals in England make been strained to penny-pinching wards and critical services due to flooding, index cuts and cognition problems, an investigating reveals.

Stallion A&E departments, pregnancy wards and medicine units make been temporarily exclude in the final tercet age due to upkeep problems.

And roughly hospitals birth even out had to for good close-fitting integral wards because they are no longer structurally good.

A Exemption of Information request to 95 NHS trusts in England launch 42 per penny of those who responded get had wards, departments or services temporarily or permanently closed due to geophysics or hangout issues since 2020.

In the conclusion triad years, 171 incidents were recorded at 27 NHS trusts, box culvert ITV Tidings ground.

At St George's Hospital in southward London, flooding in the gestation Ward in 2020 meant women in travail had to be entertained by ambulance to other hospitals to sacrifice parentage.

In a class incident in 2022, the pediatric Mary Augusta Arnold Ward inundated and was closed in for deuce years.

In January 2022, West Middlesex Hospital suffered a big businessman exit that led to the impermanent stop of its A&E department and several operational theatres.

At Papworth Infirmary in Cambridge, in Feb 2022, an electric consequence had 'pregnant touch on on the surgical process of the hospital' - with a critical incidental existence stated and patients amused gone from the infirmary.

The issues of disrepair in the NHS are getting worse, the responses show, emerging from 47 incidents in 2020 to 57 in 2021 and 67 in 2022.