RCP survey: “harrowing” to think that this is now a standard way hospitals operate

EMBARGO: 00.01 Wednesday 26th February

Responding to a survey by the Royal College of Physicians that found almost four in five doctors were forced to provide corridor care in the past month, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said: 

“To think that corridor care has not just become accepted but the standard way our hospitals operate is utterly harrowing.

“Hearing stories of people dying in glorified cupboards or having to be resuscitated in crowded corridors is heartbreaking and we should never accept that this is just the way things are now.

“It is the Conservatives' unforgivable legacy that has pushed patients into these horrific situations and staff to breaking point but the Labour government’s lack of urgency in gripping this has been inexcusable.

“Patients cannot take any more of the can being kicked down the road. We need to see the Government's social care review completed within a year to free up hospital beds and get people out of A&E waiting rooms to prevent this from ever happening again.”

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