 A tearful MP has told how she feared her father would die during an 18-hour A&E wait on a chair on the same day NHS data revealed a huge surge in wait times. NHS England figures showed a record 43,792 people waited longer than 12 hours in October, from a decision to admit to actually being admitted on to a ward. These 'trolley waits' were up a staggering 34% from 32,776 in September - the highest since records began in 2010. Jess Phillips raced back from London on Wednesday to her stricken 78-year-old dad after he called 111 at 10am and was told a paramedic would be sent because he had suspected sepsis. Seven hours later after no ambulance had arrived for retired teacher Stewart Trainor so the MP for Birmingham and Yardley drove him to the city's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Jess told the Mirror: 'Its harrowing. Dad had become disorientated and was shaking. 'The system just seems to be on its knees. I'm so angry. Jess Phillips' dad Stewart in the hospital during an 18-hour wait in A&E Jess Phillips raced back from London on Wednesday to her stricken 78-year-old dad ( PA) 'I've used that A&E so many times in my life. It has saved my life and the lives of my loved ones but I've never seen it like that. 'The Tories have been in power for 12 years. What on Earth have they left us with?' Mr Trainor suffers from a type of cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukaemia which affects the white blood cells and means he is immunosuppressed. After arrival at A&E at 7.30pm Wednesday he was diagnosed with a severe infection. By 3am on Thursday he was moved from the main waiting room to a chair with other elderly patients in a side room. Jess was told to go home and come back to him at 9am. After 18 hours in A&E there were still dozens){kind=link}
Labour MP Jess Phillips, who raced back to help her 78-year-old dad Stewart with suspected sepsis, said he was ‘disorientated and shaking’ – ‘it was frightening and I cried’
A tearful MP has told how she feared her father would die during an 18-hour A&E wait on a chair on the same day NHS data revealed a huge surge in wait times.
NHS England figures showed a record 43,792 people waited longer than 12 hours in October, from a decision to admit to actually being admitted on to a ward.
These âtrolley waits’ were up a staggering 34% from 32,776 in September – the highest since records began in 2010.
Jess Phillips raced back from London on Wednesday to her stricken 78-year-old dad after he called 111 at 10am and was told a paramedic would be sent because he had suspected sepsis.