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By John Stevens An 89-year-old woman with dementia was forced to sleep in a hospital foyer for three days in a “dehumanising” display of the NHS crisis. Greta Woolley, a retired shop worker from Rainham, was taken to A&E at Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent, on January 26 with a chest infection, urine infection and swollen left knee – symptoms that had previously been present when she had sepsis. But despite doctors deciding she needed to be admitted, she was not given a bed on a ward for 72 hours, instead having to wait on a trolley in a corridor. Her daughter Jayne Woolley, 61, sa…

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