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    Horror as terminally ill woman 'forced to sleep on floor' while waiting in A&E
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    Horror as terminally ill woman ‘forced to sleep on floor’ while waiting in A&E

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    1. ImperialSyndrome on

      And by “horror” they mean “a bunch of people going ‘well, yeah, I can believe that'”. It’s awful but, ultimately, surely no one is shocked by this?

    2. Expensive_Fun_4901 on

      To play devils advocate it’s Not like they can do anything to stop her being terminally ill why should she get preferential treatment over other people with immediately life threatening conditions that can actually be treated.

    3. Valuable-Horse788 on

      This happened to me too except they made me stand up and threatens to call the police on me for not being able to

    4. AlexisWooPoo on

      Unfortunately this situation regularly happens in every A&E in the UK.
      Chronic understaffing, misuse of nhs funds, not enough beds on the wards, bed-blocking due to lack of nursing home places and care packages.
      What’s needed is Staff recruitment and retention, more government funding for the nhs and social care and and an investigation of misuse of nhs funds and streamlining of nhs management, this would be a start.

    5. No_Hunter3374 on

      The NHS is over. Death by middle management on 150k min and Equality Officers on 80k and dying women sleeping on floors.

      The NHS budget is 181.7 BN. It’s insane. We should simply be given vouchers each year of 200k to use for healthcare, encouraged to get insurance and told to go private or public depending on what we want.

    7. Brian-Kellett on

      I started nursing in A&E while John Major was in government. Had exactly the same except they did have a ratty old bed squeezed in to our minors department.

      What they didn’t have was a blanket or pillow. Just two sheets. Poor bastard was dying and the curvature of his arthritis neck kept his head suspended over the bed.

      30 years later and I can still remember it.

      It’s why I handed in my notice the day after Johnson won the election – I wasn’t going to work in that anymore. I was struggling to get painkillers for my palliatives, it was only going to get worse.

      When Blair came in things got a lot better, sadly I don’t think that’s going to happen with the presumably incoming Labour government. I just hope I’m wrong.