{"id":457213,"date":"2026-03-04T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:48:09","slug":"distressed-elderly-woman-died-alone-in-ae-corridor-at-ysbyty-glan-clwyd-visitor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/457213\/","title":{"rendered":"Distressed elderly woman died alone in A&#038;E corridor at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, visitor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Angela Wood, the board&#8217;s executive director of nursing and midwifery, said they recognised that &#8220;witnessing a medical emergency or a patient who is critically unwell can be deeply upsetting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the health board was &#8220;committed to providing care with dignity, compassion, and respect &#8220;and &#8220;corridor care is not something we want for our patients&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At times some patients are not receiving the standard of environment or experience we would want for them, and we are absolutely committed to addressing this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have been contacted directly by the author of the social media post and will be speaking with them to understand the circumstances in more detail.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angela Wood, the board&#8217;s executive director of nursing and midwifery, said they recognised that &#8220;witnessing a medical emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-457213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}