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Medway Maritime Hospital patient Sandra Yeman, from Sittingbourne, spent four days in A&E and says the latest figures on trolley waits leave her petrified about going back to hospital
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00:00 it doesn't fill me with confidence at all but it doesn't actually surprise me
00:04 because things really are getting worse. There are no improvements at all at the moment.
00:11 There just doesn't seem to be any improvements. There are so many departments that really do need so much more help
00:18 and I really don't know where to say to start with it to be honest.
00:23 We need more doctors, we need more nurses but we also need more beds and more places for people.
00:30 And more GPs. More GPs would stave an awful lot of the people going to A&E and blocking that up
00:39 because they could be dealt with in their own GP surgeries.
00:44 I'm very afraid because I really am frightened to go back again.
00:48 I don't want to be there for three or four days in absolute agony and nobody not being able to do anything about it.

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