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May 27, 2014
A dying man was left for nearly five hours in an ambulance in a hospital car park because NHS staff were too busy, an inquest heard yesterday.
Michael Bowen, 58, died of a seizure two hours after being finally admitted into the hospital’s strained accident and emergency department.
An inquest heard how the Welsh NHS hospital would ‘frequently’ keep patients in ambulances in the car park because of a shortage of beds.
His heartbroken mother Joan wept as she said: ‘I just want to know why my son was kept in an ambulance for so long.
‘He was a good son and a good person – I miss him hugely.’
The hearing was told former miner Mr Bowen was ‘significantly ill’ when his mother called 999 for help.
He was taken five miles to Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, South Wales, complaining of breathing difficulties and abdominal pain.
When he arrived at the hospital in the early hours of the morning, he was taken inside to be seen by a nurse.
But Mr Bowen was then returned to the waiting ambulance because there were no beds.
The inquest heard how two other patients were also sat in ambulances at the time.
Nurse Caroline Gardener said: ‘Of the three patients in ambulances I thought Mr Bowen was top priority. He needed clinically to be seen first.
‘But I thought the safest place for him was to go back into the ambulance where he could be monitored.
‘It is not uncommon for the department not to have any beds available a few times a week.
‘I am professionally concerned about the situation, because it was a danger to anyone walking through the door – it puts everyone at A&E at risk.’
The inquest heard that in the early hours of January 16 the hospital was experiencing ‘capacity issues’.
The emergency department had become ‘bottle-necked’ by the number of admissions during the night.
