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Expert teams to be sent to worst corridor care offenders in bid to end practice
Specialist teams will support the worst-performing trusts as 40 new or expanded urgent care centres aim to cut waits and reduce pressure on A&E departments.
- Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced specialist expert teams will be deployed to NHS trusts with the highest rates of corridor care, alongside 40 new or expanded urgent care centers backed by £215.5 million.
- NHS England defined corridor care in March as patients spending 45 minutes or more in inappropriate areas, a practice Streeting described as 'baked into our NHS' for too long.
- Evidence shows interventions work: Queen's Hospital in Romford provided 10,000 fewer corridor care hours in February versus last year, while Blackpool saw 12-hour waits fall by 43% through data-driven staffing.
- Ministers aim to eradicate corridor care by the end of Parliament, with the Getting it Right First Time team providing hands-on support to help trusts improve patient flow and data understanding.
- While unions like Unison welcome the intervention, they warn that long-term success requires addressing staffing shortages and social care bottlenecks to truly alleviate NHS pressure.
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The NHS has vowed to “stamp out” corridor care with specialist “hit squads” sent into the worst-hit trusts.In a bid to restore safety and dignity to frontline care, ministers say they will end the practice by the end of this Parliament - backed by new urgent care centres, new funding and hard data tracking every case.The move comes after years of mounting outrage over vulnerable patients left waiting on trolleys in packed corridors - a crisis de…
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