A mum is suffering mental torment after waiting almost a year for a test to see if she has cancer. The woman, who asked not to be identified, had a smear test in February last year which showed she had abnormal cells.
08.01.2023 - 12:49 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Earlier today the Sunday Mail revealed that forty people are dying every week as a direct result of Scotland’s A&E crisis.
The massive rise is down to a record number of patients being forced to wait over eight hours for care, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Dave Johnston, 55, from Edinburgh, spent 36 hours in A&E in agony after developing a back problem on December 28. Here, the photographer describes how he saw an NHS stretched to its limit.
I started getting a twinge in my back three days after Christmas but within hours I couldn’t move and it hurt to breathe. I called 111 around 6.15pm and the operator said they would send a one-hour ambulance.
That night was a sleepless one for me and my wife Anne. We received a further eight calls, all saying an ambulance was still being located, before one finally arrived at 10am. Medics at St John’s A&E in Livingston saw me quickly but were worried I could have a pinched nerve at the base of my spine – which can lead to paralysis.
I was scared but reassured when they said an urgent MRI scan was booked at Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary and I was blue-lighted there. As I lay on a hospital trolley queue in the corridor of a dark A&E ward, I saw staff helping people non-stop for over 12 hours. Most patients were pensioners.
People were collapsing in rooms and lying very ill on trolleys, maybe even dying. The man behind me was urinating in a bottle as he couldn’t move from his trolley.
I had arrived in time for the 3.30pm scan but spent the next three hours waiting in that corridor. After two hours in an emergency observation room, with no observations done, I was returned to the corridor trolley queue.
My blood pressure was checked and another four hours passed. After
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