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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Storm Newton

Corridor care figures remain above 3,000 a day for July amid NHS ‘summer surge’

Corridor care is ‘now a year-round crisis’ leaders of the Royal College of Nursing in Scotland warned, as a survey found almost a fifth of nurses providing care on a daily basis in ‘inappropriate’ areas of hospitals (Joe Giddens/PA) -

The number of patients in England being cared for in hospital corridors or makeshift areas has remained above 3,000 a day for the second month in a row, as the NHS experiences a “summer surge”.

Health officials said there has been a record 2.5 million A&E attendances last month amid two heatwaves.

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