‘Patients and their relatives can sometimes be physically or verbally aggressive towards us because they are rightly scared and horrified about the setting they are being treated in. Some are then arrested or removed by security. There are delays to medication. The list goes on.
‘But unless something is done we will continue to lose brilliant nurses who are getting to breaking point.’ Nurses and doctors find themselves unable to discharge patients due to the lack of community care in place, the RCN says.Ms Cullen said: ‘Patients backed-up through emergency departments is a stark sign of a health and care system grinding to a halt. A corridor is no place to die and no place to work either.
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