{"id":320342,"date":"2026-03-09T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320342\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:09:08","slug":"man-with-fatal-illness-in-36-hour-hospital-corridor-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/320342\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with fatal illness in 36-hour hospital corridor wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As he became more unwell overnight, staff said he could be having a stroke but there was a wait of more than seven hours for a doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julia said: &#8220;What is concerning is that even though the hospital staff were discussing Tom as a potential stroke patient, he was still left on the corridor for 36 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that workers apologised for delays and said a new computer system was being introduced that day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her husband was only treated with paracetamol and fluids overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Medics said he need an MRI scan but they could only take place on week days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Julia said she asked if he could be taken to the neurology department at the Royal Stoke University Hospital, but was told it was full.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The doctor prescribed antibiotics for a suspected infection, while he was in the corridor bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The A&amp;E department was overwhelmed,&#8221; Julia said, &#8220;and I believe Tom was failed by the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As he became more unwell overnight, staff said he could be having a stroke but there was a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-320342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}