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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent

Corridor care ‘new normal’ in England for one in five NHS inpatients

medical equipment in foreground and a patient in a hospital bed blurred in the background
The proportion of patients who said there were always enough nurses on duty improved from 55.7% in 2023 to 57.9% in 2024. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Corridor care has become the new normal in England, experts have said, as a national survey found that one in five patients admitted to hospital had to wait in such settings.

The report by the Care Quality Commission also found that nearly 10% of patients waited more than 24 hours to be admitted to hospital and 17.5% waited 12 to 24 hours.More than half of all patients waited more than six hours.

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