Patients are reporting 16-hour wait times at one A&E department in Manchester today as hospital bosses warned they are currently experiencing 'high demand.'
One parent, who took her child to the emergency department at Wythenshawe Hospital wrote on Facebook that she'd first arrived at 7pm last night and was still waiting to be seen at 7am this morning (December 14).
Another woman wrote: "Heads up….waiting time at A & E at Wythenshawe has just gone up to 16 hours." Responding to her post, one woman added: "I went in at 7pm didn't get seen till 5.30am."