Sky News spoke to an 85-year-old woman who waited 26 hours outside hospital with a broken hip. 'Basically, the ambulances are now waiting rooms,' said her daughter.
An older population, spread more remotely, is part of the reason, but NHS England told Sky News that staff recruitment and illness, the number of sick patients and delays in discharging patients from hospital are all causes.Advertisement
"It was a bit panicky because with that length of time, mum was then getting to a point of looking quite pale and was in a great amount of pain," she added. "Basically the ambulances are now waiting rooms - because there's no room in the hospital to take them - there's no extra wing, there's no bed space."
"So, if there's no provision in the community, you can't get people home, if you can't get people home, they stay in hospital. If they stay in hospital, there's a whole host of challenges associated to that hospital acquired dependency.
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