Responding to the Health Secretary’s comments on corridor care Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said
“The Heath Secretary is right to recognise the crisis that leaves patients treated in corridors. Being honest about it is the first important step. Nursing staff are genuinely fearful of what’s ahead this winter.
“To tackle it you have to measure it and to begin to end the scourge of patients being left in corridors there must be transparency about where this is happening in all parts of the NHS.
"Patients and nursing staff deserve better and this must be the last winter where the solution to overflowing wards is to put more patients in places where treatment is at risk.”
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