Patient died after being left waiting in A&E for 24 hours
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Patient died after being left waiting in A&E for 24 hours
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/patient-died-after-being-left-31894350
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Did they die in hour 1 and weren’t noticed till 24 hours later, or did they die in hour 24 after 23 hours of agony in a corridor?
Not sure which is worse…
> **The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital**
Well hopefully a lesson was learnt that day…
Ever since hospital bosses and MPs were all too happy in the name of funding to close the nearby Burnley A&E, everyone has suffered. Blackburn has been stuck with providing A&E for a huge catchment area, far exceeding what it was originally designed and has the safe resources for.
Blackburn A&E is genuinely amongst the most horrific places in the UK to work, it’s absolutely catastrophically rammed. There’s no space, people are properly sick and corridor care is so normalised.
Some of the A&E consultants have had heart attacks in their 30s, the turnover of staff is high from sheer burnout and of course the patients suffer.
Sad all around.
To be honest I’m surprised that doesn’t happen so often as to not be newsworthy – A&E is a gathering of the people in the country most likely to die soon, and the NHS is severely underfunded and understaffed.
It sounds like the only real error here was failing to review the X-Ray results for 12 hours, meaning the previously unknown duodenal ulcer perforation could have been spotted earlier, which may have reduced (but probably not eliminated) the chance of death. And we don’t know what the other emergencies that prevented checking the results were.
I went to A&E with a cyst that turned out to be an abscess. Worst pain I’ve ever been in. Couldn’t sit in the hard plastic chair properly. Started crying a couple hours in. They left me there all day and when my partner went to the desk and asked why I wasn’t being seen, apparently the receptionist’s eyes bulged. They’d forgotten about me.
It took about 8 hours to be seen – for five minutes, to be told to come back the next day. The next day I couldn’t move and ended up going back in an ambulance. I can totally believe this story!
My uncle, who had a well-documented heart condition, presented himself to A&E in Coleraine with intense chest pains last November. They kept him waiting in the corridor for 36 HOURS until he eventually keeled over. THEN they rushed him into the emergency room but it was already too late. I was saddened and horrified, also very confused and angry…how could someone with a dodgy heart who was already in and out of hospital, presenting with chest pains at an accident and EMERGENCY department, just leave him there for so long with zero sense of urgency until he collapsed?? Still can’t get my head around it
This is my local hospital and due to my job I see it in action often. I can confirm that regardless of the hard work the staff put in, it’s absolutely terrible.
My dad had meningitis earlier this year, after going to A&E before being diagnosed, they left him on a stretcher, in a cupboard, for 24 hours….
Anyone else terrified of hospital care generally? A&E feels like a place to become a number and be subject to all kinds of neglect and mistakes.
I was in A&E exactly a week ago. It was four or maybe five hours when someone noticed the bed I was lying on, tucked away in the corner of a passageway, was drenched in blood and I was given a blood transfusion and various other drips. You lie there thinking maybe someone forgot I’m here, maybe I’m actually dead and this is hell.
Not sure why you peeps are acting shocked.
Day after day year after year this happens.
You were all warned that the way they made cuts to the NHS and staffing for better productivity out of one person was dangerous.
Yet still nobody holds the various governments to account.
Waiting room times are absolutely shocking, I was in Royal Liverpool University A&E Last November with a friend and some of the staff were shocking, I saw one nurse hide then run off laughing when another asked him for help from distance. After 9 hours I asked if they had had forgotten about my friend only to be rudely pointed to a screen, saying waiting time is 10 hours… it was 8 when we got there…but he it was more like a chilled out goal to reach. There was also a consistent arrival of homeless drunks and druggies turning up to sleep in the waiting room, they were eventually thrown out by security but it was obvious that they were well known to security. Eventually shown onto a ward, where the beds had been replaced by chairs. Its an absolute shit show there.
In my home country the ambulance must arrive to a person in maximum 15 minutes if you have an emergency.
When I had an emergency in UK and collapsed and my husband called an ambulance he was told we will have to take a taxi.
My mother’s ascites drain for her liver cancer came out, leaving a hole in her stomach and losing a lot of liquid far too fast. I had been managing her drain at home, but it had not been put in properly- it was the second time it was fitted too.
We waited in A&E for 12 hours, and there was no one attending to her. I was keeping the wound clean, applying dressings and pressure. Eventually I went up to oncology and yelled at her doctors. They hadn’t even come to see her.
She died 3 days later of multiple organ failure.
I am convinced the episode sped up her deterioration. It certainly made her death much more traumatic. I had never been more scared and helpless.
I was a teenager at the time.