I had to re-read that.
I originally read that as 12-hour wait for a hospital bed, and I was going to say that I know that's bollocks because I reckon there were more than 17 occasions in the one A&E dept. I worked at on its own.
It's actually a 12 hour wait on arrival, presumably by ambulance, just to get a bed in A&E.
Either way it's scandalous.
