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The shame and horror of NHS corridor care: Devastating 460-page dossier compiled by frontline nurses lays bare shocking reality of 'inhumane' hospital conditions
The Daily Mail ^ | 16 Jan 2025 | SHAUN WOOLLER

Posted on 01/16/2025 4:13:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Dead patients are lying undiscovered for hours in A&E because NHS staff are too overstretched to notice, a harrowing report reveals today.

A severe shortage of beds means the sick are also being left in 'animal-like' conditions in hospital car parks, cupboards and toilets.

The Royal College of Nursing today lays bare the tragic collapse of the NHS in a 460-page dossier, titled 'On the frontline of the UK's corridor care crisis'.

It features the testimonies of more than 5,000 nurses, who expose how patients are being cruelly 'stripped of their dignity' and routinely suffering avoidable deaths.

They say it has become 'normalised' for patients to be left for days at a time in chairs or trolleys in 'inappropriate settings', rather than on a ward.

Demoralised nurses report caring for as many as 40 patients in a single corridor – some blocking fire exits or parked next to vending machines.

There, they have no access to a call bell, oxygen or lifesaving equipment and are often out of sight of the nursing station. Some are forced to go to the toilet in view of other patients, while others have no privacy as they discuss deeply personal medical issues or are told they are going to die.

Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN chief executive, described the report as 'harrowing', adding staff were leaving because they 'cannot do it any more'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: freehealthcare; healthcare; hospitals; nhs; socializedmedicine; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 01/16/2025 4:13:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Healthcare by government. What do they expect?


2 posted on 01/16/2025 4:15:37 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: MinorityRepublican

But it’s “free”!


3 posted on 01/16/2025 4:17:46 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

There are a LOT of people who crow about how wonderful socialized medicine is. But they won’t even read this.


4 posted on 01/16/2025 4:18:16 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
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To: MinorityRepublican

You can’t have a generous welfare state and open borders.

You’d think anybody who finished 3rd grade would be able to figure out why.


5 posted on 01/16/2025 4:18:23 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ain’t socialism grand.


6 posted on 01/16/2025 4:19:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

a dead patient has been wrecking america for four years...


7 posted on 01/16/2025 4:21:13 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁 )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I may be a fifth generation Anglo-American but I go NO love for the Brits.

They have this haughty self-superior attitude always giving condescending lectures to the rest of the world.

The Brits some decades ago may have had some reason to take pride in the NHS.

From all that I have gathered it has become a train wreck for quite some time.

Too much invested in top heavy bureaucratic administration and way too little on doctors and nurses in the field.


8 posted on 01/16/2025 4:25:20 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: MinorityRepublican

NHS, where people go to die and just lay around for a few days afterward.


9 posted on 01/16/2025 4:28:33 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy. until Jan 20, 2025)
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To: MinorityRepublican
It doesn't help when you have tens of thousands of Pakis and Wogs
flooding NHS, people who have never paid a single shilling in taxes.

10 posted on 01/16/2025 4:32:13 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: stanne
Healthcare by government. What do they expect?

Israel has socialized universal health care. It seems to work there.

Sweden also, and it seemed to work there (past tense; then diversity came).

Britain and Canada also seemed better able to make it work decades ago, before diversity.

Socialized universal health care has problems, but it seems to work better in homogeneous high-trust societies. People are less inclined to take more benefits than they need, because they want to leave some for their neighbors. There's a sense of "we're all in this together."

In diverse, low-trust societies, it's "every tribe for himself." People grab as many freebies as they can, with no regard if there's any left for neighbors of different religious or ethnic groups.

11 posted on 01/16/2025 4:34:08 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: MinorityRepublican

As an RN, I worked on medical surgical floors for several years; 5-6 patients could keep me going at a dead run most of the shift. Forty patients is criminal.


12 posted on 01/16/2025 4:34:46 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Anyone remember the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony with the nurses and patients dancing with hospital beds?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJjvlipXpM


13 posted on 01/16/2025 4:35:31 PM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: AlaskaErik
#3: "But it’s “free”!

Reminds me of the Wood Allen joke:

Two yentas are at Catskill resort having supper. One says to the other, "Oy, this food is horrrible!". The other replies, "Oh yes, like shit. And the portions are so small!"

14 posted on 01/16/2025 4:36:07 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MinorityRepublican

But it is “Free”!


15 posted on 01/16/2025 4:37:03 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (As we know, guilt or innocence is determined by relative light reflectivity.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh yeah?

Well, you’re a racist for not liking government healthcare!


16 posted on 01/16/2025 4:40:19 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: Flaming Conservative

bttt


17 posted on 01/16/2025 4:40:25 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Angelino97

“ Britain and Canada also seemed better able to make it work decades ago, before diversity.”

No that is not true

It has always been a disaster

I don’t know anything about Israel’s government nor health care system nor Sweden’s

I can tell you that in our government, military health care is socialized microcosm. The recipients are healthy and young, even the family members. Some retirees use the system and it is inadequate for them if they have serious medical conditions

To expand that in the general country would crush our economy I imagine but to imagine it, it would be more of what we have, which is a Medicare run system

Hospitals in high immigrant locations provide taxpayer revenue medical care to immigrants who have no insurance. No employment and complex medical conditions. They stay for weeks and months


18 posted on 01/16/2025 4:47:04 PM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: MinorityRepublican

But it’s free!!!


19 posted on 01/16/2025 4:48:11 PM PST by ChuckHam
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yeah we’re not far behind.

400K for an 11 day stay and hip surgery for my 95 year old mom where i had to fight for the surgery.


20 posted on 01/16/2025 4:49:31 PM PST by dadfly
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