Rise in hospital ‘corridor care’ is national emergency, union warns
Overcrowding is forcing hospitals to treat so many patients in corridors and storerooms that it constitutes a “national emergency”, the UK’s nursing union has said.
The growing and widespread practice is endangering patients’ safety by leaving them without oxygen or easily able to attract staff’s attention, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned.
“Corridor care” also deprives patients of their dignity because they have to undergo intimate examinations in view of others and do not have easy access to a toilet, it added.
Hospitals become so stretched that some patients have died while being looked after in what the #RCN said were “inappropriate areas”, which can also include car parks and fracture rooms.
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