NHS corridor care is ‘torture’ leading to patient deaths and staff nightmares

Royal College of Nursing publishes dossier of evidence including case of elderly patient who choked to death in corridor

Corridor care is “a type of torture” that is leading to patients dying and causing NHS staff to have nightmares, the UK’s nurses union has warned.

In one case, an elderly patient choked to death in a corridor, unseen by staff, according to a new dossier of evidence highlighting the problem published by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).