Der Patient starb, nachdem er 24 Stunden lang in A & E wartete
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/patient-died-after-being-left-31894350
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Der Patient starb, nachdem er 24 Stunden lang in A & E wartete
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/patient-died-after-being-left-31894350
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Did they die in hour 1 and weren’t noticed till 24 hours later, or did they die in hour 24 after 23 hours of agony in a corridor?
Not sure which is worse…
> **The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital**
Well hopefully a lesson was learnt that day…
Ever since hospital bosses and MPs were all too happy in the name of funding to close the nearby Burnley A&E, everyone has suffered. Blackburn has been stuck with providing A&E for a huge catchment area, far exceeding what it was originally designed and has the safe resources for.
Blackburn A&E is genuinely amongst the most horrific places in the UK to work, it’s absolutely catastrophically rammed. There’s no space, people are properly sick and corridor care is so normalised.
Some of the A&E consultants have had heart attacks in their 30s, the turnover of staff is high from sheer burnout and of course the patients suffer.
Sad all around.
To be honest I’m surprised that doesn’t happen so often as to not be newsworthy – A&E is a gathering of the people in the country most likely to die soon, and the NHS is severely underfunded and understaffed.
It sounds like the only real error here was failing to review the X-Ray results for 12 hours, meaning the previously unknown duodenal ulcer perforation could have been spotted earlier, which may have reduced (but probably not eliminated) the chance of death. And we don’t know what the other emergencies that prevented checking the results were.
I went to A&E with a cyst that turned out to be an abscess. Worst pain I’ve ever been in. Couldn’t sit in the hard plastic chair properly. Started crying a couple hours in. They left me there all day and when my partner went to the desk and asked why I wasn’t being seen, apparently the receptionist’s eyes bulged. They’d forgotten about me.
It took about 8 hours to be seen – for five minutes, to be told to come back the next day. The next day I couldn’t move and ended up going back in an ambulance. I can totally believe this story!
My uncle, who had a well-documented heart condition, presented himself to A&E in Coleraine with intense chest pains last November. They kept him waiting in the corridor for 36 HOURS until he eventually keeled over. THEN they rushed him into the emergency room but it was already too late. I was saddened and horrified, also very confused and angry…how could someone with a dodgy heart who was already in and out of hospital, presenting with chest pains at an accident and EMERGENCY department, just leave him there for so long with zero sense of urgency until he collapsed?? Still can’t get my head around it
This is my local hospital and due to my job I see it in action often. I can confirm that regardless of the hard work the staff put in, it’s absolutely terrible.