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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rachel Obordo

‘Absolute pandemonium’: stories of ‘corridor care’ from the NHS in England

A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England.
A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England. Photograph: PA

John, 42, said he was “quite angry” after spending about 24 hours in a hospital corridor in south-west England, having arrived in A&E on Monday afternoon with chest pain. “It was very clear that the hospital was running beyond capacity.”

At the time of writing, he had moved to a different hospital in the area and was waiting for an angiogram on Wednesday. Messaging from his corridor hospital bed he said: “It’s narrow, cramped and there is zero patient privacy.”

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