A West Lothian pensioner was forced to lie on a hospital trolley for 21 hours after suffering a stroke as there were no available beds.
Frank Mooney was taken to St John's Hospital in Livingston after his GP detected warning signs in a chance phone call. Frank and his wife were told to drive straight to the hospital instead of waiting on an ambulance.
As Frank's doctor had alerted the hospital before his arrival, the 65-year-old was immediately taken for tests, but then spent just shy of a day lined up in the corridor of a busy ward with other patients as there was nowhere for him to be allocated.
