PATIENTS are having to wait on trolleys in a beds crisis that has stretched hospitals across Greater Manchester to breaking point. Others are having to spend the night on chairs - and ambulances are being diverted to other hospitals around the region. Health chiefs have put hospitals on `red' status, the highest crisis state because they don't have enough beds to meet demand. People arriving by ambulance at Manchester Royal Infirmary waited on trolleys with paramedics caring for them for up to 45 minutes until they were found a cubicle.
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Hospital on 'amber alert' - The Bolton News 5th October 2007
Hospitals in beds crisis - Manchester Evening News 5th September 2007
Sunday, October 07, 2007
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