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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rachel Hall

A&Es in ‘big trouble’ because of ‘normalised’ corridor care, says leading UK medic

A patient bed in the corridor of an NHS hospital ward
Recent analysis found one in five patients in UK emergency departments are cared for in ‘escalation areas’ such as corridors. Photograph: PA

Emergency departments across the UK are “in big trouble” owing to the way corridor care has been “normalised”, a leading medic has warned.

Dr Ian Higginson, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), said there should be “howls of outrage” over deaths linked to long emergency department waits, with just a few hospitals around the UK managing to avoid caring for patients on trolleys in corridors.

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