Daily Mirror

Nursing hero Enid, 93, left in hospital corridor for 6 days

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A RETIRED nurse awarded an MBE for service to the NHS was left in agony in a hospital corridor for six days.

Enid Stevens arrived at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds in an ambulance after breaking her back but no bed could be found.

The great-grandmothe­r, who worked in the NHS for 41 years, said: “It was the most terrible thing that’s happened to me. I was soaked through with urine. A nurse passed by so I asked her for some clean clothes but she never came back so I sat there for five hours wet through.”

Now back home with daughter Barbara, 61, she said: “I’m not blaming the hospital or the staff. It was heaving.”

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has apologised. Boss Julian Hartley said: “There are pressures across the whole system which impact on our ability to discharge some patients.” ORDEAL Enid and daughter Barbara

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