Elderly woman dies alone in corridor – with the emergency care crisis leaving A&E medics ‘distraught’

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By Claudia Tanner

The death of an elderly woman alone on a corridor trolley at a Merseyside hospital has brought into sharp focus the devastating toll that the emergency care crisis is taking on both patients and clinicians.

Overwhelmed A&E medics at Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral have spoken anonymously to the media to reveal how devastated they were after the woman died without being seen.