Patient nips to hospital loo and loses her bed

A hospital patient left her bed to go to the loo — and returned to find it had been given to another woman.

Pat Roberts, who uses a wheelchair, was away from the packed NHS ward for less than 20 minutes.

But that was enough time for nurses to strip her bed, re-make it and give it to a new arrival.

Disabled Pat, 68 — who had only been in the bed for 90 minutes anyway — protested about the mix-up but was forced to sit in her wheelchair for four-and-half hours.

She was eventually found a bed on another ward.