‘NHS staff left with little choice but provide care in corridors’
Responding to new polling by the RCN on corridor care, Rory Deighton, acute director at the NHS Confederation, said:
"NHS leaders don’t want to be providing care in corridors and are clear that this is always a last resort. But NHS staff have been left with little choice and their focus continues to be on mitigating the risks to patients when they have no other beds available.
"It will take time to get the measures in place to eradicate the need for corridor care as this has resulted from a long-term failure to provide sufficient capacity in the NHS and social care. But that is the ambition and NHS leaders and staff will do all they can to achieve that.
"They will need support from government to make this happen. While we agree that there needs to be transparency and accountability on this issue, we would urge the government to ensure that any new reporting requirements on corridor care contribute to solving the problem rather than gumming up valuable clinician and management capacity."
