'It's only October, but the NHS winter crisis has already arrived'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukHospitals 'overflowing with patients' with people lying across the floor. The NHS winter crisis is already here. In a hospital in Liverpool, people are lying across the floor, some of them are asleep as they wait for a bed on one of the wards, the ECHO reports.
One woman has been in Accident and Emergency (A&E) for 30 hours. She will wait another 17 in this tiny room full of people. READ MORE: Their town was promised change but 'there's no heart anymore' Across the water in Wirral, a healthcare nurse cries all the way home from her shift, which should have finished three hours ago.
She has spent another day trying to manage an impossible number of patients with nowhere for them to go. In the same hospital, the A&E department is overflowing with patients.
Some are forced to wait for 10 hours in the back of an ambulance parked up outside. This is the reality facing Merseyside's hospitals as the region heads into another potentially devastating winter.
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