An elderly woman told her family she wanted to die after she was left on a trolley at a Liverpool hospital for 33 hours in another illustration of the crisis gripping the NHS.
Graeme Smith called an ambulance after his 92-year-old grandmother, a care home resident, became ill on New Year’s Eve.
However, after enduring a long wait for an ambulance, they then had to join a queue of vehicles waiting to access the Aintree Hospital – and even then their problems were only beginning.
Mr Smith told the Liverpool Echo: “She arrived at the hospital at 9pm but didn’t get a place on a ward until 6am on January 2. The rest of the time she was waiting on a hospital corridor with about 40 other elderly or very sick people.”
