{"id":310319,"date":"2025-12-11T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310319\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:15:07","slug":"ni-healthcare-completely-unacceptable-levels-of-corridor-care-in-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310319\/","title":{"rendered":"NI healthcare: &#8216;Completely unacceptable&#8217; levels of corridor care in NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 165 EDs across the UK were monitored, including Craigavon Area, The Ulster, Royal Victoria and Antrim Area hospitals in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research study headline is one in five people across the UK are cared for in escalation or corridor areas, in NI that figure is one in three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study also found that between 10-25% of EDs have no available resuscitation cubicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The biggest problem was found to be patient flow throughout the system &#8211; being able to discharge patients home when their hospital care is complete in order to admit others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The RCEM said the figures confirm that corridor care is &#8220;endemic&#8221; in the UK and that these figures reveal the scale of the problem which ED staff have been describing for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK College President Dr Ian Higginson said tackling the problem required investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean more money but instead how we choose to spend the money on keeping people out of hospital and what is spent on the number of hospital beds,&#8221; Dr Higginson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are calling on all the devolved nations to commit to eradicating corridor care&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 165 EDs across the UK were monitored, including Craigavon Area, The Ulster, Royal Victoria and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-310319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}