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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

Emergency departments in ‘big trouble’ as corridor care ‘normalised’ – expert

A&E leaders have warned that emergency departments are ‘full to bursting’ (PA) - (PA Wire)

There should be “howls of outrage” about deaths linked to long emergency department waits, a leading medic has said, as he warned that corridor care in NHS hospitals has been “normalised” among patients, staff and health leaders.

Dr Ian Higginson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), said that only a “few” hospitals around the UK have managed to avoid caring for patients on trolleys in corridors.

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