stood down its critical incident<\/a> status but continues to urge people to use A&E only if seriously ill or seriously injured \u2013 the worst day of the month was Thursday, May 28, when 24 A&E patients were put in make-shift areas.<\/p>\nOn May 12 and May 18, the number of A&E patients being treated in corridors was 23 and on May 31 \u2013 just days before a critical incident was declared over sustained pressures across the trust in which its emergency departments at both Basingstoke and North Hampshire and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital saw \u2018extremely high attendance\u2019 together with a low discharge rate \u2013 the figure was 18.<\/p>\n
The trust has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the region at hospitals used by people living in West Berkshire there is a mixed picture.<\/p>\n
Across the border at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust no patients received corridor care last month in either A&E or other parts of the hospital.<\/p>\n
At Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust \u2013 which runs the city\u2019s John Radcliffe Hospital \u2013 an average of 15 patients each day in A&E were seen in makeshift areas.<\/p>\n
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Corridor care data has been published for the first time<\/p>\n
While at Great Western Hospitals there were an average of 28 patients each day treated in A&E corridors and an average of eight patients in make-shift areas elsewhere in the hospital.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Swindon-based trust said when patients are waiting in assessment or escalation areas for a bed to become available, they continue to receive diagnostic investigations, medical treatment and supervision from clinical teams.<\/p>\n
In a statement they added: \u201cThere are often high numbers of patients in hospital who are medically fit to go home but are waiting for a bed in the community, such as in nursing or care homes, and this is a key factor impacting on wait times.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo free up beds for those who need admitting to a ward, our teams are working tirelessly with other organisations including social care to get people home as soon as they are able to.<\/p>\n
\u201cLocal people can also help us by only coming to hospital if they really need to, and using the NHS 111 service in the first instance who can direct to the most appropriate healthcare setting for a patient\u2019s needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Royal College of Nursing has described the situation as ‘undignified’. Picture: iStock\/sturti<\/p>\n
Responding to the first ever release of data showing the extent of corridor care in NHS hospitals, Royal College of Nursing general secretary and chief executive professor Nicola Ranger described the practice as \u2018unsafe and undignified\u2019.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cBehind these figures aren\u2019t just patients and families suffering, but nursing staff demoralised at being forced to deliver poor care, day in day out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe RCN declared a national emergency on this issue over two years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatients deserve better than the slow action that has followed from government and health leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis data is an important step and can help us understand more about the prevalence of corridor care, but attention and investment must also be on eradicating the practice for good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An average of nine patients each day were cared for in corridors or make-shift treatment areas by Hampshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,12991,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-newbury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645675","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=645675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}