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Nurses declare NHS ‘national emergency’ as patients die in hospital corridors
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, ahead of a march from the hospital to Trafalgar Square, as members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Unite union continue their strike action in a dispute over pay, May 1, 2023

NURSES have declared a “national emergency” in the NHS, warning that patients are dying in hospital corridors — and have demanded the next government take urgent action.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has painted a nightmare picture of hospital patients dying on stretchers and being treated sitting on chairs in hospital corridors.

The nursing union reveals that patients are being treated in car parks, left with no access to oxygen and are enduring intimate examinations in inappropriate crowded areas.

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