Published • loading... • Updated
Nearly 3,000 patients a day face corridor care in NHS
NHS England says 20 trusts account for most corridor care as ministers launch plans to end the practice.
- Official data recently published reveals nearly 3,000 patients every day were cared for in hospital corridors or makeshift areas last month, according to NHS England figures released for the first time.
- Emergency departments experienced their busiest month on record in May with 2,457,398 attendances, up 25,000 from March, while NHS analysis found 20 trusts accounted for more than half of corridor care cases.
- Some 75.7 per cent of patients in England were seen within four hours in A&Es in May, down from 76.9 per cent in April, while 50,212 waited more than 12 hours from admission decision to actual admission.
- Health Secretary James Murray called corridor care "unacceptable, undignified and has no place in our NHS," announcing a seven-point plan to eradicate it while industrial action next week will add further pressure.
- Siva Anandaciva, director of policy at The King's Fund, said the figures confirm the scale of something that "should never have been normalised," as the waiting list for routine treatment in England rose to 7.22 million.
Insights by Ground AI
Podcasts & Opinions
31 Articles
31 Articles
Buckinghamshire patients treated in ‘corridor care’ as new NHS figures revealed
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust recorded an average of five patients a day receiving corridor care for more than 45 minutes in its emergency departments, according to newly released NHS England figures.
·High Wycombe, United Kingdom
Read Full Article
Coverage Details
Total News Sources31
Leaning Left4Leaning Right1Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution71% Center
Bias Distribution
- 71% of the sources are Center
71% Center
L 23%
C 71%
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
