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 leftContinue reading “A Child Sleeps On A Chair In A ‘Grossly Overcrowded’ A&E After A Patient Waits 99 Hours For A Bed”
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RED ALERT
A hospital has said that it may be forced to remove critical care as it became overwhelmed with COVID 19 patients. Darent Valley Hospital, near Dartford in Kent, declared itself at critical 4 alert level, meaning patients could be denied life-saving care due to resource limitation. The Health Service Journal reported that the incredibly rareContinue reading “RED ALERT”