It’s emerged that an A&E patient was forced to wait for 99 hours before obtaining a bed and parents have told how their ailing children were forced to sleep on chairs as the NHS encounters a worsening crisis this winter.
The unidentified patient was brought to Swindon’s Great Western Hospital by ambulance but was left waiting on a gurney for four days while staff urgently attempted to source an available bed.
One clinician at Great Western Hospital told a newspaper outlet that they were broken and nobody was listening, while Jon Westbrook, the hospital’s chief medical officer, wrote in a leaked email to staff that they were seeing case numbers and sickness that they’ve not seen previously in their clinical professions.
MailOnline contacted Great Western hospital for comment.
Meanwhile, in Oxford at the children’s A&E department of John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, a three-year-old girl was seen curled up on a plastic chair trying to sleep after waiting for hours to be treated.
The girl’s father Tom Hook shared the picture on social media and wrote that people were tired, thirsty and fighting numerous illnesses and that this was the best the NHS could do.
He said that the staff throughout were amazing and were obviously doing a nearly impossible job in a broken system that just channels everything to A&E when they can’t cope with the demand.
Ambulance staff are being encouraged to save oxygen supplies due to a surge in demand for portable oxygen in A&E departments which has seen supplies run dangerously low in several hospitals around the country.
One NHS worker from the South West told a newspaper outlet that they’re now at the stage where there isn’t enough oxygen in cylinders to treat patients in corridors, ambulances and in their walk-in area in A&E.
The Health Service Journal (HSJ) said ambulance services had told staff the deficit was caused by the increased number of patients with respiratory conditions and the suppliers were saying that this was higher than during the first surge of the COVID pandemic.
It comes as the A&E chaos has also seen patients across the country forced to lie on hospital floors for hours and obtain treatment in corridors.
Stark photos and harrowing testimonies have arisen from those seeking emergency assistance and the NHS staff struggling to deliver it at hospitals in Liverpool and Wirral.
We pay into a system that fails our most vulnerable. We pay a working lifetime of National Insurance contributions and this leaves a rancid taste, and the entirety of Westminster should be dismissed and a new one put in, and we should immediately discontinue treatment for all non-UK nationals to relieve that burden.
Everyone else does, such as Canada and the US et cetera, but the United Kingdom are the ones that are paying but can’t get access to our NHS services, it’s a national scandal.
It’s been like this for years. We should stop flooding the country with people that have never contributed to the system but come here to use it, and many people in this country can’t see that we’ve been betrayed – led down the garden path to poverty by successive lousy governments for decades, but nothing will change and the sheep will keep voting in people who give away billions overseas and will prioritise pronouns over people and nothing will improve ever.
If the Prime Minister and his cabinet were made to use the NHS instead of free private healthcare (paid for by the taxpayers) they wouldn’t keep inviting people over from other countries, and then promise them full access to our NHS.
Too many people in the United Kingdom are dying prematurely because they can’t get treatment, or are told it’s too costly and that’s after they’ve worked and paid their taxes (National Insurance) for years.
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