Corridor care now a crisis all year as summer visits to A&E surge

Corridor care is now a year-round crisis in the NHS, experts have said, as an analysis showed nearly three million patients attended A&E over the first two months of the summer.

- Anna Bawden

The latest NHS figures, analysed by the Liberal Democrats, show that since 2015 the number of people going to A&E in June and July has increased 15% to 2.9 million - the highest level recorded in the past decade. Whereas 12-hour waits were rare a decade ago, with just 47 recorded throughout June and July in 2015, this June 38,683 patients, 7.2% of those attending A&E, had to wait 12 hours or more to be admitted.