The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has found almost one in five A&E patients were being treated in inappropriate spaces as NHS ‘corridor care’ crisis continues to get worse

Almost one in five A&E patients in Britain are now being cared for in corridors and inappropriate spaces as experts fear a "gridlock" this winter.

The first NHS analysis of its kind has revealed 17.7% of patients were receiving care in "escalation areas" - such as corridors, waiting rooms, doubled-up cubicles and ambulances waiting outside to offload for more than 15 minutes. The Mirror has reported on how corridor care was quietly normalised by NHS England from 2022 and Health Secretary Wes Streeting last week vowed to end the practice by the next general election .

The new study, carried out by Royal C

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