Overview
- Julia Chard, who spoke on Good Morning Britain on Monday, said her husband spent more than 30 hours in an A&E corridor and was told an MRI was unavailable over the weekend.
- Her husband, Tom Frith, died in July after encephalitis, with an eventual MRI confirming a brain clot weeks before his death.
- Chard has filed a legal claim against Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which offered condolences and said it cannot comment while litigation is underway.
- She described finding Frith distressed and soiled without a bed, and said he was not moved to a ward bed until Monday morning.
- Chard said she does not blame frontline staff and pointed to shortages and weekend diagnostic limits that can delay urgent scans like MRI, which can be critical for brain conditions.