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Emergency health care professionals are
criticising new NHS guidance that facilitates
patients being treated in hospital corridors. The
recent development has caused anxiety that the
guidance is an attempt to normalise the danger
that comes with caring for patients in corridors.
However, doctors and other healthcare
professionals remain adamant that this should
only ever be considered as a last resort.
NHS England currently adopts the jargon term
temporary escalation spaces to describe
corridors used to treat patients, and has
recently stated that multiple hospitals use them
regularly, despite the Royal College of Emergency
Medicine (RCEM) reinforcing that it is not
possible to give an adequate quality of care in
cupboards and corridors. They confessed concerns
that escalation spaces create long waiting times
in emergency departments, whilst not paying
regard to a patients confidentiality. The new
NHS guidance, however, suggests staff can deliver
safe and effective care in escalation spaces,
while simultaneously stating that corridor care
is not acceptable and should not be considered
as standard.
The RCEM further said the use of corridors to
deliver medical care was associated with
measurable harm to patients, given that sleep
and sufficient rest are hard to come by in such
circumstances. The association that sets
standards of training and administers
examinations for emergency medicine also claimed
that infection control was greatly compromised
and that corridor care presented too much of a
strain on the staff who are left to care for
patients in this manner.
So-called corridor care is a result of
overcrowding, which leads to extended AE stays
that we know contribute to avoidable death. We
and our members cannot, and will not, accept this
situation. Rather than advising how to deal with
overcrowding, all effort should be focused on
preventing it.
College president Dr Adrian Boyle and the
vice-president Dr Ian Higginson also stated that
it was distressing for patients, particularly
the old and the vulnerable, to be in open, noisy,
brightly lit, often cold areas.
So-called corridor care is a result of
overcrowding, which leads to extended AE stays
that we know contribute to avoidable death. We
and our members cannot, and will not, accept this
situation. Rather than advising how to deal with
overcrowding, all effort should be focused on
preventing it.
In June, it was further reported in the Metro
that a terminally ill woman was forced to sleep
on a hospital floor due to a lack of beds. The
patient, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in
2022, was left with no alternative but to lie on
the floor at Blackpool Victoria Hospital AE,
facing up to a 36-hour wait.
SourceMetro Doctors fear for patients lives
after hospitals accept corridor care.
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are still entitled to the best possible standard
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