It has been revealed that there have been two separate reports of sewage leaks at Swindon’s Great Western Hospital in the last year.

Hospitals across England have been afflicted by unsanitary flooding, with urine and "faecal matter" leaking into offices and onto wards.

The figures were provided by Great Western Hospitals Trust to the Liberal Democrats, who called the state of English hospitals a "national scandal".

Freedom of Information requests to NHS Trusts have revealed there have been 456 sewage leaks in England’s hospitals over the last year, across 55 NHS Trusts which provided responses.

The trust with the most leaks was Leeds Teaching Hospital, which reported 105, while there were a further 80 at North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals.

There were reports of water leaking onto X-ray machines, sewage leaks in cancer and maternity wards and numerous examples of sewage flowing into Accident and Emergency departments.

A spokesperson for the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: “Across 2022, our Estates and Facilities team dealt with two minor sewage leaks, only one of which occurred internally.

“These were dealt with quickly and no patients were affected in either incident. We carry out routine inspections of sewage pipework which helps to minimise the risk of leaks occurring.”