Forbes June 3, 2024
Treatment in corridors, car parks and store cupboards has become the norm for patients waiting to be admitted to Britain’s hospital wards, nurses warn.
More than a third (37%) of nurses said they’d seen patients being cared for in inappropriate locations during their latest shift, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing.
Overcrowding has been a major problem in the country’s emergency rooms for at least the last two years, during which waiting times have surged.
It leaves patients being cared for on trolleys in corridors and other inadequate parts of a hospital that may not be kitted out for patient care.
More than half (53%) of the 11,000 nurses surveyed said corridor care left them without...
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