Overview
- Anonymous A&E staff report the woman arrived by ambulance early last week and died on a trolley in a crowded corridor without being seen.
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital Trust cites daily attendances above 330 and peaks of 370 in December, describing demand as extremely high.
- Frontline accounts describe 40–50 patients on corridors, 102 waiting for beds, and more than 200 in a department designed for 50–60.
- Staff say senior clinicians are off with work-related stress, morale has collapsed, and reliance on newly qualified and agency staff has grown.
- The trust says it has opened extra beds and wards to reduce waits and release ambulance crews, encourages incident reporting, and notes the A&E remains rated 'requires improvement' by the CQC.