It's a disgrace

Thanks Ruth xx

Hope your mother in law is on the mend xxx

Unfortunately this seems to be a regular occurrence with ambulance’s. It is a disgrace. Wishing your mother in law all the best

Max66

i am sorry abouy your mil's experience, but am astounded that anyone finds it suprising. it is happemimg in every part of the uk, because ambulances are stuck outide a nd e unable to offload patients as a and e is over run wth patients wh need a bed byt wards are full.  this is an entirely systemic issue and no amount of complaining to PALS  or hospital trusts wii make blind bit of differnce. It is a result of social care collapsing before our eyes, with 10,000 people unable to go home due to no care avalable at home or in residential care. I  know i am ver ploitcally engaged but i struggle to know how people are not aware of thi. It is a disgrace, but the disgrace sits entirely with our political leaders, Write to your mp, the the sec of state for health and to the PM. we are all people who may find ourselves waiting hoursss for an ambulane, or stuck in that vehicle outside  a and e. But more importantly it is happening every day to thousands of people..

I agree with you.

the NHS a has not enough beds and understaffed. It needs more money x

Hi everyone, the next day or the one after,, can't remember because there's so much going on, the ambulance was called after a phone call to the surgery. A member of the staff there listened to my wife who phoned asking for a doctor to come out. The same lady was very instrumental in sourcing a wheelchair for me 7 years ago when I was in horrendous pain at the time. She's a gem.

My wife went with her mum in the ambulance and on arrival at a&e they handed her mum to another ambulance in the queue although they were triaged very quickly and brought in because she was clinging onto life. The first ambulance was crewed by a team who were specialised in treating almost end of life people so by handing her over, it left them free for others in critically ill patients.

Tvman xx 

So sorry to here this.

I am thinking of you and your wife xxx

Does not help the bed situation when you are told you can be discharged but then wait hours for your medication from the pharmacist.

Hi Tvman, thinking of you and your family xxx

Finally got back in and this was first message i read…so sorry to hear this tv man. Having cared for my 96 yo ma I know the bain of utis and discovered a thing called manose…kept her cleat for the last 43 years of her life and avoided the antibiotic nigjtmare

hope that helps and things look up

sylvia