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Scale of NHS’s “corridor care” is revealed in Royal College of Nursing report
Has treating patients in corridors and cloakrooms become “normalised”? Jacqui Wise reports A nurse forced to change an incontinent patient with dementia beside a vending machine and a patient dying ...
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Nurses have had enough - and that spells trouble for Wes Streeting
From elderly patients in tears because they have been forced to wet themselves on a trolley in the main thoroughfare of a ...
Patients dying in corridors as UK hospital standards 'collapse': report
In the latest indictment of Britain's beleaguered state-funded National Health Service, nine in 10 NHS nurses surveyed by the ...
John Swinney is shamed over shocking report which lays bare Scotland's broken NHS
John Swinney was yesterday forced to apologise after a report laid bare the 'shameful' daily conditions faced by patients and ...
‘Undignified and awful’: Patients dying in overcrowded UK hospital corridors, nurses warn
The British nursing union demanded transparency from the government on how many patients are being treated in ‘unsafe’ ...
Charity calls corridor care for end-of-life patients ‘heartbreaking’
Following testimony from nurses across the UK, Christine Irvine from Marie Curie said it was ‘appalling’ that palliative care ...
Patients who wait more than 12 hours in A&E ‘twice as likely to die within a month’
Britain’s most senior emergency doctor says figures ‘too compelling to ignore’ and calls for ‘urgent political action’ to ...
Long waits in A&E departments ‘increase risk of dying within 30 days’
The risk of dying within 30 days of leaving A&E in England is likely to be more than twice as high for someone whose visit ...
Birmingham hospitals bed-blocking crisis revealed as 80 per cent of medically fit patients not discharged
Hospitals across the Midlands are facing huge demand from patients but many cannot discharge those medically able to leave ...