Left Lying in Excrement for 20 Hours: The Elderly Patients Neglected in NHS Hospitals

Left lying in excrement for 20 hours: The elderly patients neglected in NHS hospitals

New report reveals ‘heartbreaking’ stories of elderly patients left to languish in hospital corridors for hours as experts warn of ‘crisis in plain sight’

Corridor care in the NHS is a ‘crisis in plain sight’

Harrowing accounts of poor care of elderly patients have been laid bare in a new report. Corridor care is a “crisis in plain sight”, a leading charity has warned, as it described “truly shocking” incidents of poor care of elderly people waiting days on end for care. A first-hand account from a patient likened hospital corridor care to war films with “queues of stretchers and people suffering” in Age UK’s new report. It also details other “heartb…

Petition Calls for an End to Corridor Care Across NHS Wales

A petition urging the Welsh Government to take immediate action to end corridor care has gathered the support of more than 10,000 (10,533) people from every corner of Wales. Launched by The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales, the petition calls on the Welsh Government to take immediate action to end the unsafe practice of treating patients in inappropriate spaces such as corridors, on chairs, and in…

Long A&E waits for the over 90’s shocking 36% more common in NHS England than in NHS Scotland

Professor John Robertson OBA BBC UK’s Breakfast show is covering an Age UK report suggesting a corridor care crisis in ‘NHS’ hospitals and the Guardian, above, is reporting Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year increasing serious harm for them. NHS Scotland figures are not mentioned. Scotland’s media today are, of course, only front-paging Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Rachel Reeves. Age UK‘s report is nowhe…