内容摘要："Even 10 years ago, European states weren't considering any territorial or offshore threat," he says.

"Even 10 years ago, European states weren't considering any territorial or offshore threat," he says.

It's Thursday morning at Swansea's Morriston Hospital and both staff and patients face a grim day ahead.Eight ambulances are queuing up outside, 85 patients are waiting for a bed and one patient has been sitting on a hard plastic chair for 44 hours.

We're here to witness the inner working of the hospital, how staff are working flat-out to keep the system moving and the impact it is having on patients.We'll meet some patients who have spent several days in the hospital's busy, noisy, windowless emergency department where the bright lights stay on 24 hours a day.Among them are Simon Morris, who has been on a trolley for four days with cellulitis in his legs.

Also here is Natalie Lamb, who's been on a trolley since Monday while being treated for a blood clot.Meanwhile, one of the senior nurses we speak to admits he is no longer able to give the fundamentals of care to all patients, a predicament he says is upsetting to staff.

Another member of staff tells us the challenge feels insurmountable.

On arrival at the hospital we are issued our face masks and led down what feels like a never ending rabbit's warren of corridors until we reach a small room, which essentially acts as the control centre for the hospital.During labour, she was told her son Rupert had died.

"It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, it literally feels like you’re in a horror film."It’s unbelievably painful."

She said after the birth she was told she would be given medication to dry up her milk."It felt so wrong, I knew I still wanted to donate.