Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
EMERGENCY patients are being given lifesaving care in corridors and store rooms every day because hospitals cannot cope.
Scores are feared to have lost their lives or suffered serious harm. One patient left in a hallway for two hours without appropriate treatment died after having a heart attack.
While staff attending him were cleared of any blame, half of all casualty nurses report seeing patients being cared for in areas not designated for treatment on a daily basis. Nearly a fifth witness this hourly as staff fight to cope with a shortage of A&E doctors and beds.
Four in five nurses say it puts patients? lives at risk.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...rately-ill-treated-in-cupboards-and-corridors
Scores are feared to have lost their lives or suffered serious harm. One patient left in a hallway for two hours without appropriate treatment died after having a heart attack.
While staff attending him were cleared of any blame, half of all casualty nurses report seeing patients being cared for in areas not designated for treatment on a daily basis. Nearly a fifth witness this hourly as staff fight to cope with a shortage of A&E doctors and beds.
Four in five nurses say it puts patients? lives at risk.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/healt...rately-ill-treated-in-cupboards-and-corridors