One NHS doctor has explained how pressure on his hospital has left staff using a corridor as the emergency department.
Dr Andy Ashton who is a consultant A&E doctor at Whiston Hospital in Prescott, Merseysidesaid that he and his colleagues had put numbers on the wall to indicate where the patients were.
“We put numbers on the wall to see where the patients are, we resisted it for a long time because we didn’t want to say that the corridor was actually a place, but we had to do it,” he said.
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