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• The Guardian view on corridor care: the normalisation of crisis is shocking | Editorial

  19-01-2025 18:30
  A&E nurses should not be delivering care in hallways. The result is increased sufferingTestimony from nurses regarding the overwhelming pressure on A&E departments across the UK has rightly shocked the public and the health secretary, Wes Streeting. The alarming yet unavoidable conclusion of a new report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is that “corridor care”, as treatment given in hallways or other unsuitable areas is known, has been normalised to a disturbing d
  
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• Burnout, shame, heartbreak: nurses are being crushed by our broken NHS | Sonia Sodha

  19-01-2025 09:30
  A shocking Royal College of Nursing report reveals the toll chronic underfunding has taken on staff, and rings alarm bells for the futureI’ve never read a report quite like it. Last week the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) published accounts from the frontline of corridor care in NHS hospitals. There are next to no charts or statistics, no lists of recommendations or thematic analysis: just page after page – more than 400 – of testimony from nurses about patients being treated i
  
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