Nurses want a ban on “corridor care”, warning that waiting rooms at overstretched A&Es can have more than 50 patients sitting on the floor.
The Royal College of Nursing’s annual congress heard one doctor had to give a cancer diagnosis in a crowded corridor and that failings in the emergency care system are causing “serious and catastrophic harm”.
Nurse Shelley Pearce, who recently left her A&E job in the south of England, told the Brighton meeting the practice is “a blight on our healthcare system”.
