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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Whittaker

A&E patients left in the dark and on broken beds for 24 hours – NHS corridor care laid bare in damning new report

A person died while waiting on a trolley in a hospital corridor, while diabetic patients were left for hours without food, a damning review into NHS corridor care has revealed.

Other sick patients were left on broken beds in pitch-black corridors for 24 hours with no privacy, according to a review of patient care in emergency departments in December by the group Healthwatch England.

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