Patient ‘forced to wait four days for bed at “grossly” overcrowded hospital’

A affected person waited for ’99 hours’ on a gurney for a mattress after arriving by ambulance (Image: PA)

An A&E affected person was reportedly pressured to attend for 4 days on a gurney earlier than receiving a mattress final week.

The unnamed affected person was delivered to Swindon’s Nice Western Hospital by ambulance, however ‘needed to anticipate 99 hours’ while workers desperately tried to discover a mattress.

A clinician on the hospital informed The Sunday Instances: ‘We're damaged and no one is listening.’

One other NHS employee stated: ‘We are actually on the stage the place there may be not sufficient oxygen in cylinders to deal with sufferers in corridors, ambulances and in our walk-in space in A&E.’

Jon Westbrook, the hospital’s chief medical officer, wrote in a leaked electronic mail to workers: ‘We're seeing case numbers that now we have not seen beforehand in our scientific careers.’

The complete extent of the strain on NHS has change into clear, as dozens of trusts have declared vital incidents up to now three days.

A significantly unwell three-year-old lady was pictured curled up asleep on a plastic chair on the kids’s A&E division of John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after ready hours to be handled.

Dozens of NHS trusts have declared vital incidents up to now three days (Image: Tejas Sandhu/SOPA Photos/Shutterstock)

Tom Hook, the younger lady’s dad, shared the picture on social media and wrote: ‘Exhausted, dehydrated and preventing a number of diseases, that is the most effective the NHS might do, 5 hours after arriving at A&E and 22 hours after we phoned for assist.

‘The workers all through have been implausible and clearly doing a virtually unimaginable job in a damaged system that simply channels the whole lot to A&E – which then can’t deal with the demand.’

File numbers of sufferers are actually being nursed in corridors as emergency departments have change into ‘grossly overcrowded’.

Hospitals are being pressured to cancel operations, with workers having to work in departments they're unfamiliar with.

There may be even a scarcity of transportable oxygen amid the rising unfold of respiratory diseases, together with Covid and the flu.

NHS Trusts in Merseyside have informed sufferers to not attend A&E until their situation is ‘life-threatening’, with hospitals dealing with excessive demand this winter.

Paramedics handled sufferers on the entrance to A&E at Aintree Hospital (Image: Liverpool Echo)

Photos yesterday confirmed sufferers left mendacity on the ground of A&E departments in ache.

A affected person at Royal Liverpool Hospital informed the Echo: ‘There was a girl within the ready room who was vomiting into bowls, however there have been no workers round to assist her so different members of the general public have been serving to her to clear it up. 

‘We have been informed by a workers member that there was a 30-hour anticipate a mattress. He had an enormous three-page checklist of all of the individuals who have been ready for a mattress.’

A spokesperson for Nice Western Hospitals NHS Basis Belief stated: ‘Nice Western Hospitals, like the broader NHS, is at present dealing with very excessive demand from sufferers who want a hospital mattress.

‘This does imply that some sufferers are having to attend a very long time to be admitted to a ward. While any affected person is ready for a mattress in one in all our evaluation areas, they proceed to obtain diagnostic investigations, steady therapy and supervision from our groups.

‘There are commonly over 100 sufferers throughout Nice Western Hospital who're medically match to go dwelling however are ready for a mattress locally, corresponding to in nursing or care properties, and it is a key issue impacting on wait occasions.’

Metro.co.uk has contacted Oxford College Hospitals Belief for remark.

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