British Nurses: Patients Are Dying in Hospital Corridors

The report described how patients have had to wait for CPR as nurses struggled to maneuver through a cramped corridor to get there in time. Often, patients endured unhygienic conditions, nurses said. Some had been sprayed with each other’s vomit. Incontinent patients are cleaned in corridors without privacy. The toll is particularly evident for dying people. Patients have had to face their own deaths in cramped and busy places, according to the report, without any privacy. A corpse was discovered in hallways hours after death, a nurse said.

Source: On the Front line of UK’s Corridor Care Crisis.

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