{"id":83550,"date":"2026-01-15T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83550"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:48:46","slug":"ae-torture-as-nhs-corridor-care-leaves-patients-waiting-days-to-be-admitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/15\/ae-torture-as-nhs-corridor-care-leaves-patients-waiting-days-to-be-admitted\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#038;E &#8216;torture&#8217; as NHS corridor care leaves patients waiting days to be admitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UencL.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"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: \" \/><\/p>\n<p>A damning nurses\u2019 report has found NHS corridor care is worse than ever with treatment on hospital wards compared to \u201ctorture\u201d.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/a-e-torture-as-nhs-corridor-care-leaves-patients-waiting-days-to-be-admitted\/ar-AA1Uelax?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6968a72cfb194e1baa958eceef53e8f8&amp;ei=55\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A damning nurses\u2019 report has found NHS corridor care is worse than ever with treatment on hospital wards compared to \u201ctorture\u201d. Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/patients-in-corridor.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83551,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550\/revisions\/83551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}