East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has apologised after a café at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford was used to treat A&E patients.
Almost one in five (18%) of patients having to wait for a bed on a ward are kept in a corridor or hallway, the CQC has found.
The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) has confirmed it will begin investigating the prevalence of patients being treated in ‘temporary care environments’.
The Government is investing almost £450m in a ‘fundamental shift’ to urgent and emergency care.
Liberal Democrat health and social care spokesperson Helen Morgan has called on the Government to end corridor care during this Parliament.
An NHS trust has been forced to recruit for a ‘corridor doctor’ to ease pressure on hospital overcrowding.
Treating hospital patients in corridors, waiting rooms and other unsuitable spaces has become routine, with four in five (78%) doctors providing care in these conditions in the past month, a survey...
Half the public think corridor care could be eradicated within a year if the Government took immediate action, a poll has found.
A survey of over 5,000 NHS nursing staff has offered ‘devastating testimony’ of patients dying in corridors, lack of equipment and unsafe practices.
The Liberal Democrats warned corridor care is becoming ‘normalised’ in the NHS as they revealed a record of 518,000 ‘trolley waits’ of 12 hours or more in 2024.
Over one in three nursing staff are regularly delivering car in inappropriate settings such as corridors, a new survey has found.
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