All hospitals across Greater Manchester are creaking under winter pressures, exclusive new figures show. Almost all A&Es in the region failed to meet their four-hour waiting target over Christmas and New Year as over-worked doctors and nurses battled to cope.
Mary Mannion, from Trafford, was one of those elderly patients waiting hours to be admitted - despite the best efforts of medical staff around her. She was taken via ambulance to the A&E at Manchester Royal Infirmary with a suspected stroke. What shocked her family was the length of time paramedics had to wait with Mary until a bed became available in A&E.
