Patients are still being treated in the corridor of Aintree Hospital "every other day" weeks after the ECHO reported "makeshift wards" were being used to alleviate "overwhelmed" departments.
Behind privacy screens blocking one hallway to through traffic, paramedics stood next to patients while a row of at least eight ambulances waited in parking bays outside Aintree's A&E this Monday, November 28. There has been spillover from wards and the emergency department into the hallways at least "every other day" for several weeks, according to one source who spoke to the ECHO.
There was no indication patient care was directly compromised as a result this week, but elderly and seriously ill patients were understood to have been lying in corridors for up to 30 hours because wards were at full capacity when the ECHO last reported on this issue on November 4. Three weeks later, a pregnant 17-year-old waited in the hospital's A&E for more than 18 hours while being constantly sick.
