We led fight to expose failings

– even though hundreds of patients a week in ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals.

He said: “The department is still experiencing many of the long waits on trolleys, etc, that have characterised North Midd A&E for the past two years.

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“They need to put more resources in place and they desperately need to provide the staff with more support.”

A North Middlesex University Hospital spokesman said: “Since the CQC’s report we have made substantial improvements to the number and quality of senior medical staffing in the emergency department. We accept that we still have some way to go but we are pleased that in August we saw and treated 90 per cent of patients within the four-hour target.

“Last week, only 27 out of 3,167 patients were in A&E for more than eight hours. From a low point of 65 per cent in April, we saw and treated 90 per cent of patients in August within the four-hour target time, helping to ensure patient safety and improve their experience.”

On people being left in corridors, the spokesman said extra staff had been employed to improve safety.

The spokesman said they had previously apologised for the rigor mortis case, adding: “We have taken steps to prevent it happening again.” THE Sunday People has led the charge to expose failures at the scandal-hit North Middlesex University Hospital. Earlier this year we revealed how health chiefs made an announcement over the speaker system telling the patients waiting there to go home unless they were dying. The whistelblower has praised our bid to highlight shortcomings at the North London hospital. He said: “If it had not been for your paper running that story, the Care Quality Commission would never have come in. Everyone at the hospital knows it was down to your story. It was the straw that broke the camel’s back. “The problems were being ignored until you showed how bad it was for patients and staff. You are to be congratulated in helping to prevent more patients coming to harm.” The CQC found the hospital was struggling to provide a safe and effective service and ordered improvements by August 26. Inspectors found there were delays in initial assessments of patients, in their assessment by a doctor and in moving them to specialist wards.