'As it got light I realised I was basically in a cupboard'
A lack of space meant Michael Steel's bed was moved to a stock room and left there for three days at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.
Mr Steel told Today: "I went back into hospital for a liver complaint and after three days ...they woke me up in the middle of the night and moved me to what I thought was another room."
"As the day wore on and it got light I realised I was basically in a cupboard."
"The nurses explained that they were so short of bed-space that they had put me in there for the time being."
First broadcast Today programme 15 January 2015.
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