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Patients dying in hospital corridors are going undiscovered for hours, RCN report reveals
The hand of a patient grips the rail of a hospital bed in the X-ray department at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire

PATIENTS are dying in corridors and going undiscovered for hours, a damning new report by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) reveals today.

Some sick people are being left to soil themselves, according to the body’s survey of nurses in Britain’s hospitals.

The report found that 67 per cent of nurses are delivering care every day in overcrowded or unsuitable places, while nearly 20 per cent said it was happening weekly.

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