UK A&E Nurse Highlights Patients Dying in Hospital Corridors

Patients are dying in A&E corridors - but I've seen how things could be different | Sophie

When I started nursing at 21 we were able to deliver timely, good care. That has become nearly impossible Sophie (not her real name) is a member of the Royal College of Nursing and a senior A&E nurse in a hospital in the south of England I began my career as an A&E nurse in 2010, when I was 21. It was a completely different world. If a patient needed immediate attention, there was easily the capacity for two nurses to look after them straight away. The NHS target of seeing patients within a...

By Sophie