Patients at a Shropshire hospital are facing 'suffering and indignity' on a daily basis, an undercover TV investigation claims.
Patients at a Shropshire hospital are facing "suffering and indignity" on a daily basis, an undercover TV investigation claims.Channel 4 Dispatches went undercover in the emergency department of the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and is set to expose the human impact of the crisis in the NHS in a programme tonight.
Other revelations include a makeshift ward set up on the X-ray corridor which is isolated from doctors and nurses and which has no sinks and insufficient plug sockets. This included 54,000 who spent more than 48 hours in A&E and almost 19,000 who were there for 72 hours. Siva Anandaciva, chief analyst at the health and social care charity the Kings Fund, said: “That could be any one of a number of hospitals up and down the country, which is absolutely staggering.
A growing number of hospitals across England have introduced similar policies to try and reduce ambulance handover times and limit the number of patients taking up trolleys. Responding to footage of these long waits, Professor Collins said: “It's dreadful. People waiting just far, far too long. At one point he is left alone with five ill patients for 20 minutes, including a woman who is screaming in agony. The reporter is heard saying: “I could literally cry.”
The reporter is heard to say:"We've got people having to go to the toilet in public in the corridor. It’s not OK. If that was my family member, I’d be fuming.” The reporter speaks to other patients who have been in the back of ambulances outside the emergency department for two, three and four and a half hours.
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