A Gedling councillor’s 95-year-old father was forced to wait 26 hours in a Queen’s Medical Centre corridor for a hospital bed.
Stanley Solomons was admitted to hospital at 11am on Sunday, October 16, after staff at his nursing home became worried about his health.
He was taken in an ambulance with blue lights to QMC and was eventually given a bed on Monday (October 17) afternoon.
Stanley, who is originally from London, trained at the HQ Bletchley Park code breakers during the Second World War and went on to serve with the RAF and later at a ‘listening post’ in Hong Kong.
His daughter, Labour councillor Rachael Ellis at Gedling Borough Council, was by his side while in hospital and said he was “frail”.
She said the current situation in the local NHS is “dire”, but praised hard-working staff, saying she saw them “literally running” around A&E.
Nottingham University Hospitals (which runs both the QMC and City Hospital) Chief Operating Officer “sincerely apologised” to Mr Solomons and his family.
Cllr Ellis, who represents Bestwood St Albans, said: “When I got to A&E I could see the trolleys stacking up the walkways.
“When I walked around I could see trolleys with around 20 paramedics with patients. I was told the paramedics hadn’t been able to hand the patients over.
Went on a Sunday sometime ago with partner Stroke. On a/e. All afternoon trolleys everywhere eventually night time told NO BEDSQMC TRANSFER TO CITY HOSP
I’m retired NHS nursing sister over 20 yrs plus. What has happened to A/E?
The OMC and City Hospital here in Nottingham are ‘busy’ and so are other hospitals within the UK with this same problem and this is going to be a common thing in the future. I think informing social media was a bad idea and did nothing to uplift the spirits of the hard-working NHS staff who try extremely hard to deal with members of the public whoever they are. There were others clearly in that photograph who were waiting too and whilst they excepted it for what it was and had to hang in there till a bed became available simple as that. I ask you as a Labour voter to try more to gain power in Westminster rather than expose the NHS and their attempts to deal with members of the public within the media and how do you think the NHS feel reading this and how they feel having to say sorry for something which is not their fault and out of their control.
My mother had a fall. She went to queens medical center she was epilepileptic but they didn’t offer her her meds so luckily I had taken hers with me. I told the staff I was giving her them. Which they said was OK and it was documented. After 12 hours I had to leave her there still on a trolley in a and e. The following day I got a phone call to say she had started with delirium and had caught her leg and caused a skin tear. She still hadn’t had her tablets. She was there for another 24 hours before they found her a bed by that time my mother was unrecognisable with delirium!!! She never recovered and passed away 5 weeks later….I wish I had never left her alone. I have to live with that thought. I to don’t blame the nurses they were run ragged.