Crisis in casualty: A&E patients waiting up to 10 days to be admitted and at least one left languishing on trolleys for 24 hours at almost every trust READ MORE: Interactive chart shows the parties' plans for YOUR health services By Shaun Wooller Health Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 17:10 BST, 2 July 2024 | Updated: 18:03 BST, 2 July 2024 e-mail 268 View comments Patients have been forced to wait up to ten days in A&E to be admitted to hospital due to a severe shortage of beds, alarming new figures reveal. Almost every trust in England reports leaving at least one person languishing on a trolley in their emergency department for 24 hours or more over the past year. And ten hospitals detailed waits of over four days in 2023/24, according to data released under Freedom of Information laws.
Among the 51 trusts that responded, the longest time a patient waited to be admitted last year was 230 hours and 25 minutes, at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The shocking revelations come just days after terminal cancer patient Madeline Butcher, 62, was photographed lying on the floor in A&E at Blackpool Victoria Hospital because there was no space for her on a ward. Madeleine Butcher, 62, who has terminal cancer was forced to lie on a floor in A&E while awaiting treatment for a possible sepsis infection as she was too uncomfortable to sit on a chair in the unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital Your browser does not support iframes.
The NHS target is for 95 per cent of patien.