How long for a hospital bed?

[lancslass17]

Went to a&e being admitted, anyone any experience how long before a bed becomes available?

Depends on where you are, but local to me it can be more than 24hrs...

Would it not be better to ask the nurses at the hospital you’re at? You could get 1,000 different answers here.

How longs a piece of string. Last time I was admitted I got to A&E at 5pm and was in a ward by 1am. Not too bad at all

Hope you're not waiting long

30+ hours a nurse said on New Year’s Day 2023 when all my problems really kicked off.

20th January 23 same A&E arrived 6pm 12 hours for a bed. Sat upright, no pain relief. My poor Dad sat with me throughout. It was a Friday going into Saturday morning and there wasn’t to much of a queue in the early hours.

20th March 24 8 hours to see gynaecologist team out of hours. I even walked out of the hospital as couldn’t take it any longer though was allowed back to the ladies ward next day where it was much calmer and less bloodier - 4 months later to be seen as outpatient with staff citing they book people in two weeks. Hate my body for not tolerating this gutted it could have been sorted in March but the body was having none of it.

Maybe I’ve been lucky as planned outpatients procedures were less

Hysteroscopy under ga - in 11:30 out 17:00 6 weeks for results
Colonoscopy - in 08:30 out 10:00 10 weeks for results

Sage advice I was given by don’t attend A&E on a Monday morning. Unsure on trusting the nhs to be frank.

Totally variable