An A&E crisis engulfing hospitals in Kent has left record numbers of patients waiting in corridors for more than 12 hours. Among them was a man who was rushed to the emergency department after he started vomiting blood.
Dead patients are lying undiscovered for hours in A&E because NHS staff are too overstretched to notice, a harrowing report reveals today.
It features the testimonies of more than 5,000 nurses, who expose how patients are being cruelly 'stripped of their dignity' and routinely suffering avoidable deaths. A severe shortage of beds means the sick are also being left in 'animal-like' conditions in hospital car parks, cupboards and toilets. Pictured: File photo
Her sister Miya told an inquest in October: 'In the few hours she was made to fend for herself. She was abandoned in that corridor at her most vulnerable moments, coughing up blood and suffering from diarrhoea.' Dr Andrew Leonard, the consultant who treated Ms Davis in the corridor, said her sepsis was detected at least 90 minutes later than it should have been. He added: 'Anyone being looked after in a corridor is a concern because it is a failure of normal care processes. Unfortunately, we live in a world where more corridor care has become increasingly the norm in the last few years and that is a tragedy.
Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN chief executive, described the report as 'harrowing', adding staff were leaving because they 'cannot do it any more'. Another told how a 90-year-old dementia sufferer was left scared and crying because no one was able to help. The report comes just days after figures revealed hospitals left a record 518,000 patients languishing on trolleys in A&E for 12 hours or more last year.
Previous research by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine found long waits in A&E are likely to have contributed to 14,000 deaths in 2023. Pictured: File photo
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