Teh One Who Knocks
09-11-2018, 11:03 AM
Tom Herbert for Metro.co.uk
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A man who has just months to live has revealed his ‘humiliation’ at being stuck in a hospital corridor for eight hours.
Nick Turner, who suffers from terminal bowel cancer, was forced to wait on a hospital trolley at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital after being admitted with an infection.
The 55-year-old solicitor said: ‘I’ve been told not to make any plans past January and yet they leave me suffering the indignity of being stuck on a hospital corridor for eight hours.
‘The humiliation is immense.’
Mr Turner, of Worcester, was admitted to the A&E department at 9.30am last Wednesday and by 2pm was in awful pain from an infection and a swollen stomach.
So the father-of-three was moved on to a trolley on the corridor of the X-Ray department.
He said: ‘I was really ill when I came into A&E and it’s not something you take lightly, visiting the hospital.
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‘There were around 10 people on trolleys on my corridor, but they have patients on trolleys on other corridors as well.
‘It’s a gauntlet you have to go through to get treatment here. It is soul destroying.’
Mr Turner’s 24-year-old daughter Lizzie rang up the A&E department to complain and within an hour he was moved into a room.
‘You are parked in a thoroughfare in agony, and then the hopelessness starts to kick-in as you start to feel you will be there forever,’ he said.
‘And forever isn’t that long a time in my case, so I’d hope to not be worn down and exhausted by being treated so appallingly.’
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The father-of-three was forced to wait in agony (Picture: NB Press)
Mr Turner lashed out at the ‘scandal of mismanagement from the very top down’ before adding: ‘When I really need it parts are failing and it is awful to witness.’
A spokesperson for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said: ‘We face very high levels of demand for all our services.
‘This does mean that patients are having to wait longer to be seen and admitted than we would wish.
‘Any delay in a patient’s care is deeply regrettable and we apologise to anyone who has faced longer waits for diagnosis or treatment as a result.
‘We would welcome the opportunity to discuss any issues around Mr Turner’s care, and would encourage him to get in touch with his concerns.’
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A man who has just months to live has revealed his ‘humiliation’ at being stuck in a hospital corridor for eight hours.
Nick Turner, who suffers from terminal bowel cancer, was forced to wait on a hospital trolley at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital after being admitted with an infection.
The 55-year-old solicitor said: ‘I’ve been told not to make any plans past January and yet they leave me suffering the indignity of being stuck on a hospital corridor for eight hours.
‘The humiliation is immense.’
Mr Turner, of Worcester, was admitted to the A&E department at 9.30am last Wednesday and by 2pm was in awful pain from an infection and a swollen stomach.
So the father-of-three was moved on to a trolley on the corridor of the X-Ray department.
He said: ‘I was really ill when I came into A&E and it’s not something you take lightly, visiting the hospital.
http://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/7450/e6dD2u.jpg
‘There were around 10 people on trolleys on my corridor, but they have patients on trolleys on other corridors as well.
‘It’s a gauntlet you have to go through to get treatment here. It is soul destroying.’
Mr Turner’s 24-year-old daughter Lizzie rang up the A&E department to complain and within an hour he was moved into a room.
‘You are parked in a thoroughfare in agony, and then the hopelessness starts to kick-in as you start to feel you will be there forever,’ he said.
‘And forever isn’t that long a time in my case, so I’d hope to not be worn down and exhausted by being treated so appallingly.’
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The father-of-three was forced to wait in agony (Picture: NB Press)
Mr Turner lashed out at the ‘scandal of mismanagement from the very top down’ before adding: ‘When I really need it parts are failing and it is awful to witness.’
A spokesperson for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said: ‘We face very high levels of demand for all our services.
‘This does mean that patients are having to wait longer to be seen and admitted than we would wish.
‘Any delay in a patient’s care is deeply regrettable and we apologise to anyone who has faced longer waits for diagnosis or treatment as a result.
‘We would welcome the opportunity to discuss any issues around Mr Turner’s care, and would encourage him to get in touch with his concerns.’