'A&E left my epileptic daughter alone to have seizures in a chair for seven hours'

Raluca Maniță

A top midwife has accused the NHS of “failing” her daughter who had several seizures while she was sitting in a chair in an A&E corridor as she waited to be seen. Phoebe, 20, was on her third trip to the emergency room owing to her epilepsy after a change in her medication. But while the first two times she was joined by her mother, Donna Ockenden, on the third she was alone. On that occasion, she was kept waiting seven hours after being transferred to hospital by ambulance. While she waited in