A pensioner was forced to lie on a hospital trolley at St John's after a stroke for 21 hours because there were no beds.
Frank Mooney (65) had been sent to St John's Hospital by his GP who detected warning signs in a chance phone call. The GP was so concerned about his condition he told him not to wait for an ambulance but to get his wife to drive him straight away to hospital.
However, while Frank was taken immediately for tests because his doctor had alerted the hospital, he then spent almost a day on the trolley - many hours of which were actually in a busy hospital corridor alongside other patients similarly lined up.
