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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Liam Thorp

HISTORICAL FACTS: Patients on trolleys line entire a e corridor as pressure on nhs mounts - The Untold Story

Worrying images show patients on trolleys lining an entire corridor of an under-pressure Liverpool Accident and Emergency unit.

Concerned relatives can be seen stood next to their loved ones, who are waiting to be seen as pressure on the National Health Service continues to grow. The images were shared with the ECHO by a man who was taking his elderly parent to be seen at Aintree hospital this week.

He described the scenes as 'the worst he had ever seen' within the major parts of Aintree's A&E department. He added: "I have spent a fair amount of time in and out of here with my elderly relatives lately, but I have never seen patients lying on trollies stretching all the way down and into the adjoining corridors, which are part of the main hospital.

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