A patient going into ‘cardiac arrest in the waiting room’, ‘people dying outside the resuscitation area because there’s no room inside’, and ‘patients dying while waiting for ambulances’.
Emergency medics are describing scenes of horror for patients and their families in A&Es across Greater Manchester and the wider north. Speaking on condition of anonymity, emergency department doctors and a paramedic told the Manchester Evening News harrowing stories from inside the NHS, happening ‘on a daily basis’.
The increasingly dark days come as the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Adrian Boyle, has said as many as 500 people could be dying each week because of delays to emergency care. A crippled social care system and a wave of flu and Covid are adding yet more pressure to hospitals which are bursting at the seams with patients.
