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Nearly 3,000 patients a day face corridor care in NHS
Key takeaways
- It is the first time the data has been published and reveals the scale of the challenge facing the NHS in tackling what ministers say is "unsafe" and "unacceptable".
- Corridor care is when patients spend more than 45 minutes waiting for an appropriate place for their care and ministers have pledged to eradicate the practice by 2029.
- In A&E this can be in corridors and side-rooms and make-shift treatment areas where there is not the proper equipment to keep them safe and maintain dignity.
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Nick Triggle,Health correspondentand Chloe Hayward PA Media Nearly 3,000 patients a day had to be cared for in hospital corridors or make-shift treatment areas rather in a bed on a ward in England last month, figures show.
It is the first time the data has been published and reveals the scale of the challenge facing the NHS in tackling what ministers say is "unsafe" and "unacceptable".
Corridor care is when patients spend more than 45 minutes waiting for an appropriate place for their care and ministers have pledged to eradicate the practice by 2029.
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