Patients dying near toilets and treated in car parks as ‘corridor care’ crisis laid bare

Patients are being cared for in corridors across the country - (Shutterstock)

Nurses are being forced to care for patients in corridors, store rooms, car parks and toilets as a shocking new report lays bare how the current hospital crisis is costing lives.

Patients have been left dying in corridors as helpless medical staff have had no other place to put them, while some deaths have gone unnoticed for hours as staff struggle to manage overcrowded hospital wards during the winter flu surge.