WORST IT'S EVER BEEN

Nurses lift lid on scale of misery | No hospital beds, no kit..no dignity

- BY MARTIN BAGOT Health Editor

WOMEN miscarrying in corridors, patients having heart attacks while desperate medics struggle to reach them, bodies lying undiscovered in piles of coats. Welcome to our broken NHS in 2025, as laid bare in a bombshell report. As more devastating images from inside our hospitals emerge, testimony from 5,000 nurses reveals the agonising impact of more than a decade of underfunding. The Royal College of Nursing report says corridor care has become normalised.

Prof Nicola Ranger, general secretary of the RCN, said in previous years the use of corridors would be temporary for maybe 48 hours but it has now become permanent.

She added: "I have no doubt this is costing lives. These pressures are not unprecedented but the way that we have got all these areas open is something like we have never seen.

UNETHICAL

"When you've got an escalation area with temporary beds open for two years that is not temporary, that is unfunded, understaffed hospitals and it is unethical to have patients in these spaces. So is the scale of this the worst it's ever been? Absolutely."