A pensioner who had suffered a head injury was left waiting in a hospital corridor for over 30 hours in another brutal sign of mounting pressure on the NHS. The 90-year-old woman, who had suffered a fall and bumped her head at the sheltered accommodation home she resides in, had been taken to Whiston Hospital, Prescot, with her daughter alongside her.
The fall, which occurred on a Saturday morning in late April, had caused the elderly lady to bleed profusely from her head, partly due to her taking blood thinners to deal with other health conditions. Her daughter, who asked that she and her mother remain anonymous, said: "The two ambulance men gave all the details of what had happened to the hospital staff and I thought they would go – but they stayed. Apparently they couldn’t hand mum over to the hospital as there wasn’t any space to get her into the A&E department.
"We were in a corridor with lots of other people on stretchers – mainly elderly people. I went off down a corridor into another department to find a chair as I have got health issues myself and really needed to sit down."
