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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Alex Ross

‘My mother-in-law spent years working for the NHS. Last week she waited 10 hours outside hospital in an ambulance’

The family of an elderly woman forced to wait more than 10 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital have called for greater “compassion” from NHS bosses.

Patricia Stain, aged 84, was rushed to Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham after suffering a fall at her home in Chelmsley Wood last Monday, 27 October.

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