“Grim, Grim Situation” | Undercover A&E Footage Shows ‘Shocking Lack Of Dignity’ For Patients

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Published 2024-06-25
Talk’s Mike Graham is joined by former NHS chair Martin Gower to discuss Channel 4 Dispatches' undercover exposé of the conditions suffered by patients in A&E.

The documentary gathered two months of covert footage from inside the emergency department at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.

The footage highlighted patients being put through a ‘shocking lack of dignity’, including one patient who had suffered a suspected stroke waiting 24 hours to be seen, while another had to urinate into a bottle in a public corridor while waiting to be treated.

This is following information that around 400,000 patients were waiting in A&E for more than 24 hours between April 2023 and March 2024.

Martin Gower: “I’m quite familiar with this particular hospital… everything that could be bad about it, is bad about it.”

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All Comments (21)
  • Why are you still asking these people what theyre going to do? Theyve shown you, wake up
  • @sumary7663
    Simple answer is far too many people in the country. Brits pushed to the back of the queue.
  • @d.d.4703
    When nearly 10 million people have come here since Blair and another 6.5 million forecast to come by 2036 (less than 10 years) then it is no mystery why the NHS is collapsing. It is just being overwhelmed. But, still any foreigner can rock up here and get whatever treatment they need.
  • Be nice if NHS whistleblowers weren't pilloried for bringing attention to poor practices too. Management don't want to hear about problems, especially anything that makes them/ the hospital look bad.
  • @johncatto5019
    Sack and replace the management, once you have done that they can sack and replace unsuitable staff.
  • Born and raised in Shropshire, massive county with very few people and no city so they don't get much money. As usual with all government's rural people get a lot less per person yet we have low crime well behaved locals. We are mostly white British but no special projects for us. Old schools, crap healthcare, terrible roads and low wages. This hospital has always been useless, they would close it but its the only big one we have.
  • There is very little that the nurses can do. They are having to go to work every day knowing that they will be failing patients because there isnt enough of them to even carry out basic care. Its depressing leaving work knowing you have failed. Nobody listens to the staff when issues are raised. Management do not care! Nurses are leaving because they are demoralised and worn out. This is not going to change any time soon. Labour claim they will fix the NHS, but the NHS here in wales has been run by Labour for over 20 years, and we have far more problems than in England.
  • @lorraine739
    I bet princess Anne wasn’t kept on a corridor for 48 hours age 85 after suffering a suspected stroke. My mum aged 84 was told she had a duty of care to look after him while there and told she could not leave his side to call and update family and they would not even give her a drink.
  • @JT-qd2sk
    In Telford they are closing the A&E and transferring it all the way to Shrewsbury god help us if we need to get treatment urgently plus how is Shrewsbury hospital going to cope with all Telfords patients, Labour run council
  • @teameve1976
    Please vote Reform 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
  • @ruspj
    big problem is that the NHS doesnt run hospitals anymore - most are run by private companies and are run for profits rather than for patients. putting more money into the NHS will just go into profits rather than making improvements. the only solution is to turn the NHS back into a national(ised) health service. tax payers should be covering the cost of running the hospitals and treating patients. not covering the huge profit margins private companies add to the cost. not only are hospitals run for profit but the management companies hide the profits by choosing to set up a seperate property company to permanantly pay rent to rather than mortgage hospitals directly at the same cost or cheaper and eventually own the property rent free.
  • @searan5130
    I was on a waiting list for a year to see an ENT specialist who then referred me to Nurology for an MRI. I have now been put on another waiting list to see a Nurologist to discuss the results which I haven't been given. In the meantime, I have been left to cope by my doctor with horrendous headaches and facial pain, which has been going on since February 2022 I have given up...
  • @lydialove2138
    Gloucester royal is the worse the abuse that goes on from staff is disgusting 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
  • @Th3_Gael
    This stems from the attitude that the NHS Is free. I've seen the difference between private and NHS attitudes with the same staff in the same clinic. People need to change their attitude, it's not free It's prepaid!
  • @collier8931
    Absolutely DISGUSTING, the NHS IS BROKEN. Organised Chaos.
  • @sparrow_6177
    My husband went into hospital in February to have bowel surgery. The staple holding his intestine to his bowel failed but despite him becoming critically ill and being advised he had to go back to surgery, he was left a further 30 hrs. He had a second emergency surgery and ended up on intensive care with Sepsis, causing multi organ failure which led him to be ventilated and on kidney dialysis. He had a third surgery to close his stomach and create a stoma (3 surgeries in 6 days). I thank god he is alive because others are not so lucky but he went from a healthy 56 year old who now is a shadow of the man he was, he now has a stoma bag, can barely walk, has stage 3a kidney disease which may require life long dialysis and after 5 weeks in hospital was sent home without any blood thinners so has developed a deep vein thrombosis in his thigh and calf. During the 5 hour wait to decide if it was DVT, he was also told he had a nodule on his lung which they knew about before his first operation but failed to mention it to him. He has to now inject himself daily for the next 6 months with an anti coagulant.