"Poor access to A&E service"

Transferred from Grantham A&E to Lincoln MEAU.  On arrival there was no beds & also 20 people in front of me waiting for beds. After 10hrs on a chair I was moved to the ward. I was then assessed, monitored & again moved to another part of a ward, this made me miss medications.

I was then told I was being moved to another ward but wasn't placed on a bay with other patients. My bed was wheeled into an old disused office/cupboard. This 'cupboard' had no privacy as there were glass windows on the door, bright lights permanently on as it's on a sensor not a switch & being an old office each time a patient rings their bedside bell it alarmed into this room I was in.

I was admitted for a severe allergic reaction, my skin was coming off in sheets but being moved around so much I didn't get any ointments/creams until an hour before I discharged myself (around midnight on a Saturday). I will not sit in a cupboard surrounded by files on gynaecology.

The staff are fantastic & are working beyond their limits, unfortunately we all know due to cut backs with other hospitals such as Grantham this is putting pressure & an obscene work load onto Lincoln hospital & it clearly cannot cope! 

On a different occasion I was unconscious & in VT for 2 hrs.  The 999 call handler told my husband to administer aspirin in the hope I'd not fire off blood clots. All Grantham ambulances are stuck at Lincoln waiting to drop off patients this meant there was no ambulance for me. 2hrs later an ambulance turned up on blues from Mansfield. 

I'm in my thirties & when out I play 'spot the defib' with my children..... its absolutely ridiculous & quite frankly - frightening. 

If Grantham can't have an A&E 24/7 at least make it a nurse led UTC unit to ease the burden on Lincoln hospital.