The empathy-deleted (psychopathic) No Hope Service (NHS): Ex-nurse, 64, with horrific burns sent away from TWO hospitals due to new rules. When rules are more important than need you are dealing with mental illness. Yes, people involved here – you are psychopaths

A former nurse suffering from horrific burns to her legs and stomach was sent away from two hospitals after falling foul of new “streaming” rules.

The unnamed 64-year-old woman from Norden, Rochdale, accidentally tipped scalding water on herself while holidaying in Northumberland.

Having been suffering with her sinuses she had decided to try and steam them, but not being used to the kitchen set up caught the bowl and knocked it down her front.

She was unable to treat the burns alone and so returned home with her husband to attend Rochdale Infirmary’s Urgent Care Centre as the town doesn’t have an A&E, reports the Manchester Evening News.

A staff member told her there would be a five-and-a-half hour wait for urgent care and so sent her to Fairfield General’s Accident and Emergency Department in Bury.

But the patient was told, due to protocol, staff couldn't treat someone from outside the immediate area.

She was then forced to sit outside on the pavement until her husband - who couldn't wait with her in A&E due to Covid restrictions - could come back to pick her up.

She said after having her temperature checked a nurse asked which surgery she is a member of and she said Edenfield Road.

"She said ‘that’s Rochdale’, I replied ‘yes’, and she said ‘we’ve got a protocol now that we’re not treating people from Rochdale’.

“I said ‘what?!’, she said ‘I’m really sorry but we can’t treat you’.”

“I said my husband has dropped me off at the door because he wasn’t allowed in, I was obviously in a lot of pain.

"And the nurse said ‘I’m sorry but you’ll have to go back to Rochdale’. I told her I’d just come from there and there was a five-hour wait.

“She said ‘I’m sorry’, then got up and went out and started calling the next patient in.

“So I didn’t really have a lot of choice. I wasn’t in a position to pick a fight."

At this stage it was around 5pm and rush hour traffic had peaked, with her husband battling to get to her for half an hour as she sat outside.

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