behind the scenes of how one of the uk s biggest hospitals transitions from old to new. we are going this way. liverpool s biggest hospital is on the move. ward 7a is ready to release patients. more than 600 patients and thousands of staff will be transferred to a brand new building. i m quite nervous. we can plan for as many eventualities as possible but actually until the day of the move itself, we won t know exactly who we are transferring. it s taken nine years and more than £850 million to complete. hundred times better, hundred times better. i absolutely cannot wait. any number of things could go wrong, but nothing can. cheering and applause and by the end, the hope is the health services of an entire city will be transformed. absolutely exciting. best thing that could happen to liverpool. siren wails right in the heart of the city, the royal liverpool hospital has been a landmark since the 1970s. i think the building itself at the time it was actually put up was proba
to discharge across the board. the inability to discharge medically - across the board. the inability to discharge medically fit - across the board. the inability to discharge medically fit but| to discharge medically fit but frail patients because of a lack of social care often means the hospital is too full to take in new patients. currently we have an take in new patients. currently we have an ambulance - take in new patients. currently we have an ambulance triage l we have an ambulance triage area which is designed for a handover from area which is designed for a handoverfrom the area which is designed for a handover from the north west ambulance service to ourselves. ideally patients flow to the appropriate area of the emergency department based on the triage. unfortunately, that isn t happening, we are asking patients held in those areas. and that is the corridor. that is the corridor we are referring to. is the corridor we are referrin: to. ., ., , , referring to. normally i
we re looking at moving patients out of our current ed if we can, if it s safe to do so, and then looking forward opening tonight. and that s the big one for the city, that is the change they will see immediately, so all the staff really excited about that and are ready to go on that one. the emergency department is one of the biggest of its type in the country. we expect to see around 100,000 patients per year, orjust short of. of them, around about 70,000 will walk in off the street and the 30,000 will be through ambulance crews. the whole system itself is under extreme pressure, we re seeing record attendances day on day, you can see this evening ahead of a big move we have got high numbers coming through the door all day and into the night, it is challenging times across the board. the inability to discharge medically fit but frail patients because of a lack of social care often mean the hospital is too full to take in new patients. currently we have an ambulance triage area which