Britain’s National Health Service, or rather a subsidiary part of it, has yet again failed a British subject.

Imagine being in your 90’s and having paid taxes and National Insurance all your life for a welfare state that should help you in your time of need and who has probably contributed more than some others on these islands, being told by the Ambulance Service that you are not a priority and that you would have to wait on the floor in the cold for five hours after a fall. This sounds like it is some sort of preposterous nightmare but it was the sad reality for one elderly couple in Dorset.

The MSN site said:

A 95-year-old woman told onlookers ‘I’m going to die here tonight’ after being left on the freezing pavement with a broken hip for five hours because ambulance chiefs told her she ‘was not a priority’. 

Winifred Soanes was unable to move due to the pain she was in, after falling over in Christchurch High Street, Dorset, at 2.30pm while out her 92-year-old husband Andrew.

Despite multiple concerned members of the public making repeated 999 calls for an ambulance, explaining Winifred was elderly and vulnerable, they were told she ‘was not a priority’.

Passing Good Samaritans managed to prop her head up with shoe boxes from market stallholders and a pillow from a nearby pub.

Staff at Mountain Warehouse provided her with sleeping bags and charity shops gave blankets and hot water bottles to keep Winifred warm while she waited.

Others provided coffee and food to help Andrew, who is an army veteran and diabetic and who refused to leave his wife’s side.

An ambulance eventually arrived at 7.45pm on Monday and took Winifred to hospital where she remains under supervision. 

To add insult to injury, Andrew developed a chest infection as a result of being out in the cold so long and cannot visit his wife in hospital.

Reading this is like reading some account of an incident that might have occurred in some benighted, corrupt third world shithole, not a supposedly first world nation like the United Kingdom. It’s shameful that our political classes have let the country deteriorate so much that an elderly couple are effectively told to sod off by the ambulance service when the NHS is wasting millions on diversity guff and the Channel Invaders are living better lives than many hard working Britons do.

One thing you should take from this story is that no matter how bad you think the NHS might be there will always come along a tale like this which will show you that the NHS is often worse than you could possibly imagine. It’s time to stop worshipping an NHS that sees the distressed and the extremely vulnerable as ‘not a priority’.