An 84-year-old woman with a head injury spent 24 hours being treated in ambulances outside Wales' 'flagship' new hospital due to a lack of beds, her family said.
Judith McConnel, from Crossways, near Monmouth, suffered a fall on Monday, February 28 and badly cut her head. She was originally admitted to the minor injuries unit at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, but at around 4pm she was transferred to The Grange University Hospital at Llanfrechfa, Cwmbran, by ambulance.
The pensioner's family said she was treated in as many as three different ambulances outside the £350m specialist and critical care centre for a total of 24 hours before being moved back to Abergavenny where a bed was finally found.
