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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

NHS patients face intimate examinations in corridors and nights sleeping in chairs, warns union

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Patients are being squeezed onto wards, forced to have intimate examinations in front of each other and left dying in hospital corridors as nurses are forced to play “trolley tetris”, NHS staff have revealed.

Testimonies from nurses, given to the Royal College of Nursing and seen by The Independent, reveal they are regularly forced into “unsafe” practices, such as squeezing more patients into wards with insufficient space and staffing.

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