On a corridor inside the new Royal Liverpool Hospital, there is a long queue of patients waiting on trolleys.
Some have family or friends waiting with them. Others are flanked by paramedics who are forced to treat them because of the lack of available beds and hospital staff. Some of those diligent paramedics, urgently needed elsewhere, won't do another job tonight.
One person waiting on this corridor is a 92-year-old man, it's Friday evening and he has been there since 9.30am. He won't make it onto a ward until the next day.
