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A&E ‘torture’ as NHS corridor care leaves patients waiting days to be admitted

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Crying woman asked family to 'let her die' as she endured 33 hour hospital wait More harrowing accounts are emerging from the region's crisis-hit hospitals A sick and elderly woman who was left lying on a trolley on a hospital corridor for 33 hours told her family she wanted to die. The harrowing case is the latest to shine a grim light on the chaos surrounding the National Health Service, with hospitals and Accident and Emergencies across the region completely overwhelmed. Graeme Smith was trying to get his 92-year-old grandma into the hospital from her care home on New Year's Eve after she became unwell. Having waited hours for an ambulance, the paramedics were then caught up in a queue of vehicles trying to get into the hospital. Graeme explained:

A damning nurses’ report has found NHS corridor care is worse than ever with treatment on hospital wards compared to “torture”. Read More

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