00:00Between the 1st to the 10th of May this year, 129 patients waiting for a hospital bed were placed in
00:07corridors for more than 45 minutes at Leeds General Infirmary.
00:11Overcrowding was a bigger issue at St James's University Hospital, where 471 patients faced corridor care in the same period.
00:20Leeds Teaching Hospital's NHS Trust has been struggling to cope with more A&E patients than it has beds for,
00:26and says it's working to reduce the use of corridor spaces after being required to report the figures by NHS
00:32bosses.
00:33Chief Operating Officer Tim Hyle said the Trust knows that providing patient care in additional spaces is not acceptable
00:40and it must continue working hard to make sure patients receive care in the right environment.
00:45The use of corridors can be caused by staff shortages and delays in discharging patients from hospital wards,
00:52delays in ambulance crews being able to hand patients over into A&E departments can also exacerbate the problem.
01:01New guidance issued by NHS England means hospital trusts must report a daily count of patients placed in corridor areas.
01:08NHS bosses said they were seeking to eradicate the use of corridors for A&E patients.
01:13Leeds Teaching Hospital said its senior directors were working on plans to speed up the discharge of patients and reduce
01:21corridor care.
01:22Mr Hyle said any patient needing extra interventions or monitoring will not be placed in one of these areas.
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