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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Storm Newton

NHS ‘cannot continue to ask doctors to perform the impossible’ amid staff shortages

The RCP says corridor care is ‘unsafe and unsustainable’ - (PA)

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has called for action to tackle NHS staff shortages and said the health service “cannot continue to ask doctors to perform the impossible”.

It comes as a recent poll suggested that a lack of senior doctors on duty is negatively impacting hospital patient care.

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