Heartbroken A&E nurses are "seeing the same patients in agony for two or three days".
Nurses have said they feel helpless and patients are scared to ask for help on short-staffed wards, as they spoke to the ECHO on a picket outside Whiston Hospital this week. John Taylor, 58, has worked as a nurse in A&E for nearly 35 years, he told the ECHO: "It's heartbreaking for staff because we're seeing the same patients in agony for two or three days."
John said things have got "a little bit worse incrementally" each year and in the last year he's seen a "massive difference" as patients get stuck in emergency departments, or waiting outside them, because there's no capacity in social care for people in hospital beds to be discharged.
