MANAGERS at a hospital which was named and shamed as having the longest casualty waits rose at the crack of dawn today to defend themselves - and said the three worst cases quoted should not even have been counted in the survey.
The Community Health Council's "Casualty Watch" said the longest wait it encountered was at University Hospital, at Aintree, Merseyside, where a 90-year-old woman went into A&E suffering from hip pain after a fall.
Ninety-five hours later, she was still in a bed in the unit waiting for transport to be taken home, it said.
It also said that an 81-year-old woman had to wait for 47 hours and a 94-year-old woman waited 30 hours before receiving proper treatment.
But hospital managers said today that the survey was inaccurate because the women were being held on an observation ward - a normal practice which they say provides privacy and appropriate care.
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