Responding to the NHS England announcement on reporting patient care in corridors, a spokesperson for the RCN said:
"Nursing staff raised the alarm over treating patients in corridors and the system is beginning to respond.
"Clear reporting should be mandatory, not optional, if the NHS is going to get a grip on this emergency situation. No patient deserves the indignity of care in such inappropriate locations.
"Good care costs but poor care costs more. In the Budget, the government must invest to get the NHS through this winter safely."
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Notes to editors
In June, at Congress in Newport, the RCN declared a “national emergency” over care delivered in inappropriate crowded areas
