Patients told to soil themselves in understaffed A&E

By Alison Moore2025-03-05T06:04:00

The Care Quality Commission has reported on an emergency department with 55-hour A&E corridor waits, and some frail patients being told to soil themselves because there was no one to take them to the toilet, while another had to urinate into a bottle without privacy curtains.

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