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flag Elderly UK patients face dangerous delays in hospital corridors due to staff and bed shortages, prompting calls for urgent government action.

flag A report by Age UK reveals that elderly patients in the UK’s NHS are enduring prolonged, often days-long waits in hospital corridors due to bed and staff shortages, with some left in wet beds, denied food or toilets, and even dying unattended. flag Disturbing accounts describe patients soiling themselves, hearing deaths nearby, and being stranded in disused hallways, leading many older adults to avoid emergency care. flag The charity calls the situation a "crisis in plain sight," urging urgent government action with clear targets to end corridor care, especially as winter approaches. flag Health officials acknowledged the severity, pledging new funding and plans to publish waiting time data.

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