Paula Sherriff's patient safety fears at Dewsbury Hospital

Ms Sherriff said: "what I heard absolutely horrified me..."

An MP has said patient safety at a troubled hospital is being compromised "on a daily basis".

Paula Sherriff, Labour MP for Dewsbury, said Dewsbury Hospital's staff had told stories that "absolutely horrified me".

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust runs the hospital along with others at Pinderfields in Wakefield and Pontefract Hospital.

The trust said "there has been a significant improvement in the recruitment of registered nurses".

Ms Sherriff told BBC Radio Leeds: "what I heard absolutely horrified me that patent safety is being compromised at the trust on a daily basis"

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Staff had come to her in "absolute desperation" and there had been a "massive spike" in the number of people coming to her with complaints, she said.

"The nurses that are there are working incredibly hard this isn't criticism of them, unfortunately it just appears there isn't enough nurses."

Paula Sherriff said: "The nurses... are working incredibly hard this isn't criticism of them"

The MP recently met with anonymous staff at the hospital.

She also raised her concerns about Dewsbury Hospital in the House of Commons on Monday and was regularly meeting with the trust, she said.

Ms Sherriff would go into the hospital as a patient "only if I had to", she added.

"Working to make improvements"

Judith, a patient speaking from the hospital, said: "I think they're really short on nurses they are struggling.

"I've seen a lady sat in her own urine for an hour because the nurses are busy elsewhere.

"I've had to wait four hours for my medication."

David Melia, acting chief nurse, said: "The trust has been very open to the fact that it is still working to make improvements to its staffing and the delivery of patient care.

"What is clear is improvements are happening and things are better than they were."

In January, there were 123 full-time registered nurse posts vacant in inpatient wards. This had reduced to about 47 posts by the end of April, he said.

The trust had been told by Ms Sherriff of "some concerns from members of our staff" but did not have the details it would investigate when it had, it said.

Ms Sherriff told the House of Commons in March the trust had "effectively been in crisis mode for the last 14 months".

The trust was rated "inadequate", following an inspection by health regulator the Care Quality Commission published in December.

The report found nurse staffing levels "continued to be a problem".