A doctor quit his place on the board of NHS Tayside last week blaming in part a breakdown in relations with its chair over a recent breast cancer treatment controversy.
18.04.2022 - 06:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Ambulance crews and police vehicles had to queue for hours to hand over patients at a hospital as staff scrambled to find room for them in cupboards and clinic waiting rooms.
One crew waited 16 hours with a patient at Ayr Hospital and a police van waited for six hours with a patient they had picked up because there were no ambulances.
The hospital had a deluge of patients arriving at A&E last Tuesday night and struggled to cope.
Staff within Ayr Hospital claimed the demand for beds has reached “dangerous levels”.
One staff member told how an assessment area with a capacity for six beds had 40 people waiting to go inside. Ill patients were sitting in chairs and makeshift spaces were being created in cupboards and day clinic waiting areas.
She said: “I am embarrassed to be working for an organisation where people are dying down to bed management.
“On Tuesday night, there were nine ambulances at A&E and the first one to offload had been sitting for 16 hours.”
She added: “There is five-bedded rapid assessment unit which is a Monday to Friday day service but we were having to put patients in there overnight because there was no space.
“We had to use cupboard areas where there is no oxygen supply for patients and we were taking chairs out of clinic waiting areas and putting patients in there with curtains round them.
“There is also a bariatric room where we were putting two patients but there is only one oxygen supply and one call buzzer.
"If someone had a cardiac arrest, the other patient would be watching it all happen.”
And she told how a carer went out to a house in Girvan and found a man slumped on the floor.
She called the social work department who, in turn, called the police.
She said: “The man wasn’t being arrested or anything
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