Jess Phillips’ father left ‘disorientated’ in ‘harrowing’ A&E wait

Labour MP Jess Phillips said she feared her father would die after he waited at A&E for 18 hours. Ms Phillips’ elderly father Stewart, 78, sought care for suspected sepsis but was left waiting while “disorientated and shaking”. She said the experience left her “so angry” as NHS figures show patients are enduring excessive waits for urgent treatment.Speaking to the Daily Mirror, the MP for Birmingham Yardley told reporters her brother called the NHS non-emergency 111 service on her father’s behalf at 10am.An operator informed him a paramedic was on the way to see him for suspected sepsis – a life-threatening medical emergency – but they still hadn’t arrived seven hours later.Ms Phillips rushed to her father’s side from her London home and drove him to Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.They arrived at the hospital’s A&E department by 7.30pm on Wednesday, November 9, where he was diagnosed with a severe infection.READ MORE: NHS ‘could save £2bn’ in decision to stop funding 13 procedures Jess Phillips’ father left ‘disoriented and shaking’ in ‘harrowing’ 18-hour A&E wait (Image: GETTY) Tens of thousands of people are waiting 12 hours to be admitted to A&E (Image: GETTY)The MP blamed the harrowing experience on decades of Conservative governing failures.Her local A&E had “saved my life and the lives of my loved ones”, she said, but she had “never seen it like that”.She questioned: ‘The Tories have been in power for 12 years. What on Earth have they left us with?’Ms Phillips praised NHS staff at the A&E, whose “loveliness” made the experience “a million times better”.DON’T MISSWetherspoons announces new wave of pub closures across UK – EXPLAINERCouncil stopped paying family’s £5,000 housing benefit as their home burned down – PICTURESSainsbury’s becomes latest supermarket to bring in 50p charge in petrol stations – INSIGHT Jess Phillips passionately defended NHS staffers (Image: PA)