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Hospitals occasionally have a lack of beds for their patients at busy periods, but this should not detract from the quality of medical care given by staff. Medical negligence claims could be made if lack of attention from professionals leads to further ill-health.
Any individuals in need of treatment, whether they have been allocated a ward or are sat in a corridor waiting for a room to become available to them, should be given all the medical help they need during their stay should they require it.
Many patients are irritated by a long wait to be examined by a professional, but in most cases it is clear to staff that this will have no detrimental effect to the person's quality of life when they are eventually called to receive treatment.
However, in some cases hospital staff do not give a patient the quality of care that they are clearly in need of, because they have not been able to give them a bed and the individual has been left in a waiting room or corridor.
Understandably, at busy times hospital staff might be under heavy workloads but occasionally an emergency situation might present itself, involving an individual who has not yet been found a ward to stay in, which needs immediate attention despite other patients being kept waiting as a result.
If a patient waiting on a hospital trolley begins to suffer a severe decline in their condition they should be given medical attention as soon as possible. Failure on the part of medical staff to weigh up the urgency of different patients' needs, could result in a decline in the quality of an individual's life or result in their death.
In 2011, national media reported the story of a 29-year-old woman who had suffered a miscarriage in a hotel corridor. She had gone to hospital in an ambulance, in pain and bleeding, but since the hospital was full she could not be offered a bed.
It is alleged that although the staff were aware that she was having a miscarriage and that nothing could be done to prevent it, they failed to give her the quality of care that she needed by leaving her in full view of other patients as she waited with her partner and the paramedics who had brought her in.
Her partner said, "In the end, I was holding up a blanket with a paramedic to give Joanne some dignity. She was going through one of the most traumatic moments of her life but had no privacy or dignity or care in A&E."
As a result she suffered severe trauma, and made a compensation claim against the hospital for her suffering.
Making a medical negligence claim
If you have suffered personal injury through a lack of quality of care in hospital, you could contact YouClaim and make a medical negligence claim with our expert solicitors.
We could help you receive compensation for you pain, suffering and resulting loss of earnings. Contact us on 0800 10 757 95 or request a call back.
