BRITS have been left appalled after discovering crazy waiting times at a hospital, with some patients expected to wait up to seven hours to be seen.
The hours-long wait times were shared by one bloke attending Liverpool University Hospital yesterday who noticed the times displayed on a screen in the waiting room.
The man himself was left waiting in the accident and emergency department for more than a whopping five hours.
However, some patients – even with the most minor ailments – could be expected to sit for over an hour, with more major cases facing wait times of almost a full working day.
The image shows the waiting times for varying levels of ailments displayed on the TV in ascending order.
The shortest – minor ailments – has an approximate wait time of one hour before patients are expected to be seen.
Patients suffering major ailments can expect, according to the screen, to be seen in approximately seven hours.
Meanwhile patients waiting to be assessed or “in triage” are expected to wait just fifteen minutes to be seen.
After triage patients are seen they will then be expected to wait a further one hour if their ailment is minor or a whopping seven hours if it is major.
The snap of the waiting room TV showing the absurdly long wait times for seriously injured or sick patients was shared to social media yesterday.
The post was captioned: “How is this acceptable? I’ve been here for five hours now, and I’m still waiting to be seen.”
It has since received over 100 likes and more than 100 comments from social media users appalled by the wait times.
One user wrote: “It’s totally unacceptable. It improved under Blair but then we had 15 years of Tory cuts.”
A second added: “Lack of GP appointments available so all end up here or walk-in.”
A third said: “I pulled an all nighter a few weeks ago. There were three people there using it as a place to sleep (not Liverpool).”
Another commented: “In London St Thomas’s majors wait time is about 10 hours.”
A fifth replied: “It’s acceptable because it’s a busy, understaffed and free hospital.”
