Recruits of medical emergency hospitals specialized in ‘Corridor treatment’ … since shock data show that 80 percent of doctors offer care in ‘insecure’ spaces that include bathrooms

A NHS hospital has been forced to recruit a doctor to work in A&E runners in an attempt to reduce overcrowding.

University hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust said he was looking for a doctor whose role he focused specifically on the treatment of elderly patients trapped in corridors.

The corridor’s care was “now normal” at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, he added, where 1,200 patients waited at least 12 hours for a bed last month.

Health leaders warned today that the announcement was a “terrifying and worrying accusation of how bad things have become” and exposed the “very shameful reality” of the NHS.

It occurs only one day after the new disturbing figures revealed that eight out of ten NHS doctors had to offer treatment in “inadequate” public spaces in the last month.

The Royal College of Physicans (CPR) condemnatory report found that patients were often stripped of his dignity and routinely had his committed security.

Last month, the Whittington hospital in northern London, also announced so that nurses work in ‘Corridor Care’ of 12 hours.

In the job announcement, seen by The timesThe trust said that the corridor’s care had been “normalized” throughout the country, and this increases the risk of patients dying.

University hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust said he was looking for a doctor whose role he focused specifically on the treatment of elderly patients trapped in corridors

The corridor’s care was “now normal” at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, he added, where 1,200 patients waited at least 12 hours for a bed last month

Published on the NHS Jobs website on Tuesday, with a salary of £ 49,909 to £ 70,425, he said: ‘Taking older people in the emergency department corridor is now normal in our hospital.

‘This is replicated in trust throughout the country.

‘Our clinical experience and evidence tell us that the long periods in the runners lead to greater morbidity and mortality, especially for older people with fragility.

Paper is also a Scholarship, aimed at doctors who have worked at the NHS for several years.

They will focus on the ‘current and urgent clinical and educational need’ to improve the attention of the corridor, as well as ‘implement changes in the corridor’, the announcement added.

Dr. Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the Times: “Let me be clear from the beginning, it is not a job announcement or blame the confidence that issued it.”

‘The fact that such paper could be considered necessary is a terrifying and worrying accusation of how bad things have become.

‘Corridor care is a very dangerous and very shameful reality and not only during winter.

Tamara Davis was only 31 when she died after being “abandoned” in a hall with another 19 patients

“To end this dangerous situation, we need more hospital beds available to admit people who need hospital attention and address this problem of delayed downloads.”

Professor Katie URCH, medical director of university hospitals, Sussex, also said: ‘The delays that patients are experiencing in our hospitals, including runners’ care, are linked to challenges throughout our health and care system.

‘To support this, the role financed jointly with our School of Local Medicine focuses on the care of fragile elderly patients to avoid unnecessary admissions from the hospital and to guarantee the most appropriate hospitalization evaluation and care.

‘We all understand that corridor care is not acceptable, and that we must continue our progress towards elimination.

‘This role is based on the significant steps that we have already taken with our partners to ensure that patients receive a more timely income or treatment.

“Although winter has been extremely difficult, there are clear signs of improvement compared to last year.”

It arrives only one day after the CPR condemnatory The report found that 78 percent of the surveyed doctors said they had given attention to a temporary environment in the last month.

Of the 889 respondents who gave more details about where this attention was given, 45 percent said he was in a corridor.

Last month, the Whittington hospital in northern London, also announced for the nurses to work for 12 hours ‘runner’ shifts

More than a quarter (27 percent) admitted that it was in additional beds or chairs in patient bays.

Meanwhile, one in ten (13 percent) said they had paid attention to the rooms without a dedicated bed space, while nine percent had taken care of patients in waiting rooms.

One, surprisingly, revealed that ‘they had more than one patient to die directly as a result of not being in an appropriate clinical area, in a cart in the corridor instead of resus.’

They had also seen “patients at the end of life who were waiting for hours in the back of the ambulances or in the emergency departments, feeling that they are a burden.”

Last year, NHS England said it would begin to register data on the use of temporary climbing spaces in all NHS trusts since January 2025.

Dr. John Dean, clinical vice president of the RCP, said: ‘NHS England’s decision to start registering data on this crisis is a step in the right direction, but it must be made public and act urgently.

“We need systemic reforms to expand capacity, improve patient flow, protect patient safety and ensure that the corridor’s care is eliminated, not normalized.”

A NHS spokesman said: ‘The growing demand levels have resulted in extreme pressures on services, particularly during one of the most difficult winters that NHS has experienced, but we remain clear that the care of patients in temporary spaces is not acceptable and should never be considered as standard.

Patients sleep in beds that cover a hospital corridor in the department of A&E in Overun at the William Harvey hospital in Ashford in December 2024

“We know that there is much more to do to ensure that people receive treaties faster in an emergency and avoid being admitted to A & e unless they need it and when they are there, provide faster and more safe care for patients.”

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care also said: ‘It is shocking that corridor’s attention has become a characteristic of our NHS.

‘Despite the best efforts of the staff, patients receive unacceptable treatment standards.

‘This government has taken decisive measures in the last six months to relieve pressure on the NHS, including the completion of resident medical strikes so that the personnel are on the front line, not on the picket line for the first winter in three years, and we are providing funds to reduce the revenues avoidable to the hospital and delayed discharges.

“We will deliver reform and investment through our exchange plan, so the NHS is there for us when we need it, once again.”