The worst part of any driving holiday is undoubtedly the fumble for passports: the dread that sets in as a stern border guard stares you down while you try to remember if you put them in the glovebox, the door cubby, or the kids’ lunchbox. But that could be a thing of the past thanks
Corridor care has become ‘the new normal’ in the NHS, health leaders warned last night after disturbing new figures revealed eight in ten doctors have had to offer treatment in ‘unsuitable’ public spaces in the past month. The damning report from the Royal College of Physicians found patients were often stripped of their dignity and
Last Updated:January 31, 2025, 20:02 IST Barrier-free tolling has been proposed for a seamless tolling experience on national highways. It will enhance the efficiency and transparency of toll operations, as per the government The government has moved from traditional ways of tolling to digitised tolling by adopting electronic toll collection through FASTag. This has reduced
Patients are dying in the corridors of Britain’s hospitals. Pregnant women are receiving miscarriage treatments in semipublic places. Incontinent patients are cleaned next to vending machines. Those are just some of the shocking revelations in a report published on Thursday by the Royal College of Nursing, a British nursing union. In the report, nurses described
Last Updated:January 16, 2025, 18:10 IST Nurses of the UK’s NHS said that patient safety is compromised and that they are having to treat patients in cramped spaces, even during emergencies. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers part of the UK’s NHS said they were having to treat patients in corridors, converted cupboards, car parks
Getty Images Patients are dying in corridors and pregnant women are miscarrying in side rooms as overwhelmed hospitals struggle to cope, nurses say. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence provided by more than 5,000 of its members across the UK this winter also showed cupboards, car parks, bathrooms and nursing stations were being
By Rebecca Whittaker For Mailonline Published: 07:14 EDT, 21 October 2024 | Updated: 09:08 EDT, 21 October 2024 Ambulance staff have been instructed to leave severely ill patients in hospital corridors if they’re forced to wait longer than 45 minutes to hand over to emergency medicals teams. The move could see patients dumped without being
Israel’s demand for lasting control over two strategic corridors in Gaza, which Hamas has long rejected, threatens to unravel cease-fire talks aimed at ending the 10-month-old war, freeing scores of hostages and preventing an even wider conflict. Officials close to the negotiations have said Israel wants to maintain a military presence in a narrow buffer