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chirpychippy · 31 Oct 2025

I had a visit to A&E via an Ambulance on Wednesday. I was shocked at the amount of people in the corridors on beds, A&E was jam packed.

I nearly didn't go to hospital, I couldn't believe with my fitness level that I could be having a heart attack and id just pulled a muscle, beside the pain was on the right not the left! Nonetheless I went to prove them wrong, I did prove them wrong.

Pulmanory embolism didn't cross my mind, but why would it, blood clot in my lung. That is scary sh^t, now on blood thinners, today ct scan and action plan, im used to an NHS that takes months to get appointments, next day is a bit of a worry.

morqthana · 31 Oct 2025

Good job you decided to prove them wrong.

Hope it all goes OK.

Mottie · 31 Oct 2025

chirpychippy said:
I was shocked at the amount of people in the corridors on beds, A&E was jam packed.

Been going on for ages. Corridor care, it’s called. All over the BBC news this morning.

SPLINE · 31 Oct 2025

chirpychippy said:
I was shocked at the amount of people in the corridors on beds, A&E was jam packed

With respect you are a little behind the times. Have you seen how many people are in the country now? It is jam packed.

Don't worry about that for now though, take it easy and get well soon.

chirpychippy · 31 Oct 2025

SPLINE said:
With respect you are a little behind the times. Have you seen how many people are in the country now? It is jam packed.

Ive heard about it and read about, not so long ago in the very same hospital they had to use the Costa coffee cafe as a ward!!

Still not nice to see especially considering I could get admitted today, to a corridor near me.

pete01 · 31 Oct 2025

I watched 24 hours in A&E the other night and the paramedics spent virtually the whole shift waiting in the ambulance and then in a corridor with the same elderly woman.

Its a broken system but the paramedics are doing a brilliant job.

simplesteve · 31 Oct 2025

I remember the uproar a year or two ago when some Healthboards were advertising “ Corridor Care Nurse” vacancies.

Was also surprised to see on the ‘Ambulance fly on the wall’ documentary the other night that after the Ambulance spent a couple of hours in the Que at the hospital waiting to admit the patient, that if the patient then goes into said corridor the Ambulance crew had to wait with them until they were seen.
So many problems. So many hero staff.

EDIT : sorry to repeat Pete above - I must type faster !

chirpychippy · 31 Oct 2025

pete01 said:
Its a broken system but the paramedics are doing a brilliant job.

The Paramedics are doing a brilliant job. On entering the hospital the hospital Porter couldn't find any wheel chairs, the paramedics apparently aren't allowed to book people in, but, they took me to the waiting room found me a chair and booked me in.

They said they are not supposed to but who would if they didn't.

diy_fun_uk · 31 Oct 2025

I wish you a speedy recovery.

As for the packed A&E departments, it's all the fault of migrants ... or at least that's what the idiots think.

Knave of Hearts · 31 Oct 2025

diy_fun_uk said:
I wish you a speedy recovery.

As for the packed A&E departments, it's all the fault of migrants ... or at least that's what the idiots think.

Blame the 20% of non-British staff in the NHS.

pete01 · 31 Oct 2025

diy_fun_uk said:
As for the packed A&E departments, it's all the fault of migrants ... or at least that's what the idiots think.

No one said that on this thread, dont start the idiot off

diy_fun_uk · 31 Oct 2025

pete01 said:
No one said that on this thread, dont start the idiot off

Watching QT last night, they had a guy on the panel who supports Reform but isn't part of the party.

Jeez, every single thing they discussed he found a way to blame the migrants. And when they were talking about the breaking news on (ex) prince Andrew, he just pivoted to talking about the rape gangs.

Whilst he had his support in the audience, in the main they weren't buying it.

Brigadier · 31 Oct 2025

pete01 said:
No one said that on this thread

Because they haven't the balls to

Just weasel snide racists, with a few proudly-overt exceptions.

Hope you make a speedy and full recovery, chirpy

securespark · 31 Oct 2025

chirpychippy said:
I had a visit to A&E via an Ambulance on Wednesday. I was shocked at the amount of people in the corridors on beds, A&E was jam packed.

When I smashed up my ankle last November, I started off in Warrington Gen, as that was nearest to where I slipped. If I had got an ambo, I'd have requested my local hospital, but that ambo would have taken nearly 5 hours and I was lying on cold wet concrete. So Mrs S and a fellow car charger dragged me screaming into the back of the car and she took me instead. Anyway, I digress. There was a lot of politics between Warrington and Stockport. I mean, I thought the "N" in NHS stood for National, but it seems if you break your ankle outside your area, they don't want to fix it!

The surgeon told us that local cases would take precident over me. All the time, the need to fix my joint in place properly was getting more and more urgent; it had to be done before the two week deadline.

Luckily, I was eventually transferred to my local hospital, but there was not a bed for me. Then they found me a bed in the Maternity wing. Then the lift was broken and the nurses on the ward asked if they could take me back to Warrington? Meanwhile, my bed in Warrington had gone to someone else....it was like a Carry on film...

But when I did finally get on a ward, post surgery, I heard story after story from people who came onto my section about how A&E was rammed and there were trolleys all down the corridors, out of A&E and down the main corridors. There were ambos outside who couldn't discharge their patients into hospital care, so we're looking after them in the vehicles.

And this was nearly 12 months ago.

securespark · 31 Oct 2025

cc

Wishing you all the best mate.

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