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Denise Welch has lifted the lid on her recent hospital dash and revealed she was ‘given a bed within 15 minutes’ once someone recognised her.
The TV star 66, opened up on the health scare and the details of what happened during Thursday’s episode of Loose Women.
The panel were discussing the NHS Trust’s recent advert for a ‘corridor care’ doctor to help with the increasing pressures of overcrowding in A&E.
Denise talked about her own recent experience and revealed she had to wait a whole 24 hours to be seen while in ‘the worst pain ever,’ but claims she was quickly given a bed once another patient ‘spotted her and phoned the press’.
She had been rushed to hospital with acute peritonitis – an infection of the stomach lining – shortly after returning to the UK after her holiday in the Caribbean.
In the most recent instalment of the ITV show, Denise told the panel: ‘I’m going to say this. I was in hospital a few weeks ago.
Denise Welch has lifted the lid on her recent hospital dash, revealing she was forced to wait 24 hours while in ‘the worst pain ever’
‘I was rushed into hospital. I was alright but I was in A&E for 24 hours. Now they were looking after me and there was no bed, they kept saying, ‘There’s no bed.
‘They wanted me on the surgical ward. [They said,] ‘There’s no bed, there’s no bed, there’s no bed.’ Somebody spotted me and phoned the press – and I was in a bed in 15 minutes.’
The audience gasped in shock and fellow panelist Charlene White commented: ‘That’s not going to go down well.’
She then read out a statement from a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Social Care.
Charlene read: ‘It’s shocking that corridor care has become a feature of our NHS. We will deliver a from and investment through our plan for change so the NHS is there when we need it once again.’
Earlier this month he star, who had been absent from the ITV panel show since November prior to her return this month, told fans: ‘2 weeks ago I was in the worst pain ever.
‘We waited 90 minutes for an ambulance and then I spent 24 hours in A&E waiting for a bed on the surgical ward.’
