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Have you waited longer than four hours at A&E?

Marion Davison: My 83 year old husband fell so I phoned for an ambulance I was told it would be four hours so I drove him to A&E, we waited six hours before we were seen.

Lesley Dacres: If people could get appointments with their GPs we wouldn’t have this issue. People need help and sadly they think A&E is the answer.

Kirsty Louise Blakelock:

Really? I was 20 weeks pregnant this time last year and waited nine and a half hours in the A&E waiting room in the middle of covid with a suspected blood clot in my lung.

Laura Anderson: 9pmam with my eight year old, saw nurse at 10.30pm then doctor at 6.30am.

Jacquie Cobb: The hospital pharmacy as well five and a half hours A&E then two and half hours to get prescription.

Evelyn Rump: Nothing new, even years ago waited nine hours all told to be sent home with paracetamol only to have to return three days later for a lifesaving op, nothing has changed it’s just got worse.

Maria Cross: I think it will get worse, the nurses and doctors are not paid enough for the long hard shifts they do, so less people want to do the job.

Hollie Jane Eastward: Eight and a half hours with my little girl to be told the famous words, ah it’s just a viral infection.

Janet Stevenson: On a number of occasions with elderly relatives.

Wendy Teasdale: 10 hrs three weeks ago.

Gayle Carr: Yeah six hours with my little boy.

Adele Kennedy: The other week me and my 12 year son waited from 9pm-3am.

Donna Purvis: Six hours in agony before given anything to ease the pain.

Christine Wilde: Yes it was disgraceful to make a frail couple wait 10 hours before anyone saw my dad.