CQC survey: Government unable to “grasp the scale of the challenge it is facing”

EMBARGO: Immediate Release

Responding to the Care Quality Commission saying that corridor care has “become a regrettable reality” and "must not become normalised”, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:

“I fear the CQC is worryingly late to the party. Corridor care has already become normalised with A&Es in the midst of a permacrisis this summer. Countless people are being treated on trolleys instead of in waiting rooms - seven days a week, 365 days a year. It is not sustainable and it is not safe, with long delays risking deadly consequences.

“A&E waiting rooms are caught between a rock and a hard place. People are unable to access their GP, so are forced to go to hospitals whilst those in hospitals can’t be discharged as the care capacity doesn’t exist.

“It amounts to a health service brought to its knees by the Conservatives, and a Government that does not seem able to grasp the scale of the challenge it is facing.”

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Notes to Editor:

A link to the survey can be found here