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Shocking vid shows hospital A&E corridors crammed with patients in wheelchairs
The footage was posted online by a mum waiting for her sister to be seen by hospital staff in Stoke to highlight the strain the NHS is under
DOZENS of patients line a cramped hospital corridor in a "heart-wrenching" video highlighting the strain the NHS is under.
The footage taken at Royal Stoke University Hospital on September 11 shows elderly patients in wheelchairs left alone in corridors.
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Toni Prince shot the clip after spending seven hours in A&E with her sister, who was waiting to be seen by doctors.
It shows her trying to walk down a busy corridor crammed with patients as slammed workers also attempt to make their way through.
The 25-year-old mum said there were so many patients lining the corridors she struggled to get past.
She said: "It was heart-wrenching walking through and seeing that many people in this situation.
"There has got to have been above 50 or 60 (patients) in just the corridors I saw but then there was more in other corridors.
"The corridors were full. They even stopped us from going through at one point.
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"They were doing blood pressures on patients in the corridors and everything.
"Elderly people weren’t covered up properly. It wasn’t very dignified at all."
The shocking footage has been viewed more than 21,000 times after it was posted on Facebook to highlight the busy conditions hospitals across the country face.
Toni blamed the government for NHS cuts, adding: "We need more funding not just for more beds but for more staff doctors and nurses maybe even expand the hospital and A&E. We as human beings deserve to be treated better."
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, who run Royal Stoke, said the maximum number of patients who could have been on the corridor was 20 because of the size of the area.
Chief Executive Paula Clark said: "There can be exceptional spikes in demand for our services and during these times people do experience long waits to be admitted, which nobody wants to see.
"This is why we are in the process of creating 45 additional beds at Royal Stoke and introducing a new way of working called 'hospital at night', to ensure that the service runs as efficiently as night as it does during the day.
"We would like to thank patients and their relatives for their on-going support during busy periods and continue to ask the public to use alternatives to A&E wherever possible."
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