- A Crohn's disease patient described waiting nine hours in agony on a hospital corridor at Basildon Hospital, highlighting severe issues with NHS corridor care.
- Healthwatch recorded more than 280,000 cases of corridor care over the summer, driven by record heatwaves and an average of 2,300 daily cases in July.
- Patients experienced severe indignities in overcrowded corridors, including receiving medical procedures without privacy, long delays, and inadequate basic care.
- NHS leaders warned of early winter pressures following the busiest September on record, which saw 2.44 million A&E attendances and over 806,000 ambulance incidents.
- Healthwatch and NHS England are pushing to eradicate corridor care through social care reform, summer heat taskforces, and specialist clinical support for struggling hospitals.
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