I DON'T know where the Royal Bolton Hospital gets its statistics from regarding Accident and Emergency waiting times. My mum was taken there by ambulance after suffering a stroke in July. The whole procedure from arriving at A & E to getting on to a ward was 10-and-a-half hours! My mum had never been ill before. She was distressed. We as a family were totally shattered by the experience!
She did get a bed after about seven hours, only to be put into a side room in A & E, as there wasn't any room on the ward for said bed!
The staff were fantastic. I couldn't believe how hard they all worked with the amount of patients rowed up on trolleys! But I think the Royal Bolton Hospital needs to review the figures published, or people might ask to see how these numbers were arrived at!
Mrs Jackie Webb
Sandford Close
Harwood. Bolton
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