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Patient's patience earns Guinness record
An NHS patient has become the holder of the new world record for the longest wait on a hospital trolley.
Tony Collins spent 77 hours and 30 minutes waiting for treatment.
Guinness has created a new category of "longest hospital trolley duration" for Mr Collins and said he would soon be receiving a certificate.
Mr Collins, 40 and a diabetic, got the news after returning to his home in Swindon after spending a further 60 hours on a hospital trolley.
He said he did not know whether to laugh or cry: "I can think of better records to have. And unfortunately, it will probably be the sort of record that gets broken every day in the NHS."
The careworker's first long wait happened two years ago at Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital, when he spent three days stuck in a corridor near a toilet.
He had been admitted in February 2001 with a suspected virus and was told there were no beds available.
He contacted Guinness World Records in September to see if his wait was unusual.
An NHS patient has become the holder of the new world record for the longest wait on a hospital trolley.
Tony Collins spent 77 hours and 30 minutes waiting for treatment.
Guinness has created a new category of "longest hospital trolley duration" for Mr Collins and said he would soon be receiving a certificate.
Mr Collins, 40 and a diabetic, got the news after returning to his home in Swindon after spending a further 60 hours on a hospital trolley.
He said he did not know whether to laugh or cry: "I can think of better records to have. And unfortunately, it will probably be the sort of record that gets broken every day in the NHS."
The careworker's first long wait happened two years ago at Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital, when he spent three days stuck in a corridor near a toilet.
He had been admitted in February 2001 with a suspected virus and was told there were no beds available.
He contacted Guinness World Records in September to see if his wait was unusual.
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