On November 30, I took my elderly father to A&E after he was involved in a car accident.

He was in severe pain and struggling to breathe.

Although triaged quickly, we were then left in the waiting room for seven hours, only to discover that the wait to see a doctor was seventeen hours.

This is a staggering failure when the NHS target is to see 95 per cent of patients within four hours.

During those hours, I spoke to many other patients.

Every single person was frustrated and despondent.

People are unable to get GP appointments, and when they turn to A&E in desperation, they are expected to sit overnight in hard chairs, in pain, just to be seen.

This is not a functioning healthcare system.

After ten hours, my father was in even worse pain due to the long wait, and we had no choice but to self-discharge.

When we approached staff to do this, we were told they were too busy to process the paperwork and that it could take hours.

What we witnessed behind the scenes was even more distressing.

An elderly woman with a dislocated arm was screaming in agony and drifting in and out of consciousness.

In the two hours we were in the back corridor, nobody attended to her.

Other patients lay on gurneys with no supervision.

I saw one overworked nurse fighting to cope and one exhausted surgeon.

The scene was chaotic, unsafe, and frankly shocking.

I have had previous experience with Warrington General during my grandmother's long illness, and I can say that standards have clearly worsened in recent years.

What I saw on November 30 was not a service under pressure, it was a service in crisis.

Patients in pain and distress deserve far, far better!

I am calling for urgent intervention from Sarah Hall MP and from national health authorities.

Warrington Hospital needs immediate scrutiny, transparent accountability, and meaningful improvement before more people are put at risk.