Thursday 29 September 2022 08:41 AM Pneumonia-stricken woman, 96, was left on a trolley in A&E for 40 HOURS because ... trends now
A 96-year-old woman battling pneumonia was left on a trolley in A&E for 40 hours.
Pensioner Evelyn Gaw could not be moved to a ward because of a lack of beds, the Health Secretary was told yesterday.
In the latest shocking example of NHS chaos under the SNP, the former headmistress was left 'frightened, crying, breathless and disorientated' in a draughty corridor at an Ayrshire hospital.
The case was described as 'morally abhorrent' to Health Secretary Humza Yousaf, who faced demands to tear up and rewrite his NHS recovery plan.
During a Holyrood debate on the health service crisis, Scottish Tory health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane raised the case of the greatgrandmother, who was taken to A&E by ambulance after collapsing last Thursday.
Her son, a GP of 39 years, said his mother felt that she had 'lost her dignity' because of the 'disastrous and completely unacceptable' situation at University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock.
Pensioner Evelyn Gaw could not be moved to a ward because of a lack of beds at University Hospital Crosshouse in Kilmarnock (pictured), the Health Secretary was told yesterday
While the latest case of NHS chaos occurred in Scotland, NHS England is facing its own crisis. NHS figures show 6.8million patients were in the queue for routine hospital treatment in July, equivalent to one in eight people. Nearly 380,000 have been waiting for over one year
Emergency unit data shows that three in 10 people in England were forced to wait longer than four hours in A&E departments in August, while nearly one thousand per day waited for 12 hours
Ambulance response times in England recovered slightly in August but the time taken for paramedics to arrive on the scene was still well above targets
Cancer patients starting treatment within two months of an urgent referral increased from 59.9 per cent in June to 61.6 per cent in England in July. But the figure is below the 85 per cent standard, which hasn't been hit since 2014
During a Holyrood debate on the health service crisis, Scottish Tory health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane (pictured) raised the case of the greatgrandmother, who was taken to A&E by ambulance after collapsing last Thursday
Dr Norrie Gaw added: 'She's usually fit as a fiddle and lives alone with the help of wonderful carers but suddenly developed a chest infection that wiped her off her feet.
