Top docs warn new guide on treating patients in corridors is 'normalising the dangerous' Leading emergency doctors have expressed concern about a new guide on how to treat patients in corridors, saying it is “normalising the dangerous”.
The guidance, published in September, acknowledges corridor care is “not acceptable and should not be considered as standard” but due to current pressures some hospitals are “using temporary escalation spaces more regularly - and this use is no longer ‘in extremis”’.
Responding, RCEM said it is “not possible to provide safe and good quality care” in corridors or cupboards.
Use of corridors will lead to long waits in emergency departments which is “associated with measurable harm to patients”, it added.
NHS England has produced guidance on “providing safe and good quality care in temporary escalation spaces”.
