Corridor care should not be normalised & without reform & investment outside hospitals the choice to not normalise it will mean closing EDs when capacity is reached &/ or discharging those waiting for (non existent) beds elsewhere into the care of other authorities who have nowhere for them to go?
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Shaun Lintern
Hospital advertises for 12hr 'corridor nurse' shifts while many across England prepare for patients to be stacked waiting for a bed www.thetimes.com/article/410d...
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nursing roles and consultant rota allocations to this activity. Until we have capacity within the NHS - both in primary and secondary care, corridor care will remain an established part of life.