Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis
A hospital is recruiting nurses to work 12-hour shifts in its corridors caring for sick patients stuck waiting for a bed.
In a sign of the deepening capacity crisis facing the health service, Whittington Hospital in Archway, north London, posted several adverts for registered nurses last week where the role was specifically described as “corridor care” or for a “corridor RN”.
Across the country, doctors and nurses have reported NHS trusts installing power sockets and oxygen lines in corridor walls, in anticipation of large numbers of patients needing to be stacked there on trolleys while they wait for a bed.
Professor Nicola Ranger, head of the Royal College of Nursing, said: “Recruiting tired nurses to do extra shifts solely in corridors is desperate. It shows just how normalised this practice has become.
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Source: Telegraph, 11 January 2025