A pensioner came away from an almost 12-hour A&E wait with a gashed arm after a botched transfer onto a table for a scan, say his family. The 87-year-old went to A&E after a fall, leaving him with a leg so painful he was unable to stand.
Patrick Fitzgerald attended Tameside Hospital’s A&E at around 1pm on Tuesday (November 22) after a fall. His leg was hurt and his face badly bruised.
During a seven-hour ordeal, the patient waited and waited to be seen as he was ‘stuck in a wheelchair’ and being offered a hot drink and a blanket by fellow patients who were concerned for his wellbeing, according to his family. When he was finally taken for a scan at around 8pm, Mr Fitzgerald says he was transferred from his trolley bed onto the scanning table being lifted by staff, meaning he cut his arm on the retractable sides of the table.
