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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jack Clover

Patients 'left to DIE in hospital store room' at troubled A&E, say whistleblowers

Old people were left to die on a trolley in a hospital store room – with only a flimsy screen to protect their dignity, whistleblowers say.

Witnesses say the miserable fate was endured by at least three brought into A&E at troubled Gloucestershire Royal Hospital last month.

Insiders say the pensioners, classed as end-of-life patients because of their condition, were left in so-called cohort rooms when no relatives could be found while waiting for beds.

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