Earlier today the Sunday Mail revealed that forty people are dying every week as a direct result of Scotland’s A&E crisis.
The massive rise is down to a record number of patients being forced to wait over eight hours for care, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Dave Johnston, 55, from Edinburgh, spent 36 hours in A&E in agony after developing a back problem on December 28. Here, the photographer describes how he saw an NHS stretched to its limit.
I started getting a twinge in my back three days after Christmas but within hours I couldn’t move and it hurt to breathe. I called 111 around 6.15pm and the operator said they would send a one-hour ambulance.
