London, Jan 16, 2025 (AFP) - Patients dying in corridors as UK hospital standards 'collapse': report

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UK patients are "coming to harm" with hospitals so overwhelmed people are dying in corridors awaiting treatment amid a "collapse in care standards", a report said Thursday. In the latest indictment of Britain's beleaguered state-funded National Health Service, nine in 10 NHS nurses surveyed by the country's nurses union said "patient safety is being compromised". Nearly seven in 10 (66.8 percent) said they were delivering care in "overcrowded or......

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