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A frail heart patient has claimed he was forced to wait on a hospital trolley for 15 hours in a busy corridor because of over-crowding.
Roger Barry, 73, told how staff shunted patients around “like queuing trains” as they waited to be seen in the A&E department.
The retired carpet weaver, who had a quadruple heart bypass and now suffers from angina, dialled 999 after collapsing of a suspected heart attack on February 2.
He was initially forced to wait seven hours before being seen by a doctor. But he was forced to wait a further eight hours on a trolley in a corridor of the A&E department at Worcestershire Royal Hospital because there was no cardiologist working until the following morning.
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...-to-over-crowding-claims-frail-heart-patient/
Roger Barry, 73, told how staff shunted patients around “like queuing trains” as they waited to be seen in the A&E department.
The retired carpet weaver, who had a quadruple heart bypass and now suffers from angina, dialled 999 after collapsing of a suspected heart attack on February 2.
He was initially forced to wait seven hours before being seen by a doctor. But he was forced to wait a further eight hours on a trolley in a corridor of the A&E department at Worcestershire Royal Hospital because there was no cardiologist working until the following morning.
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...-to-over-crowding-claims-frail-heart-patient/
