article_snippet: Divisive': Patients are left in corridors outside wards Patients should be in while waiting for a free bed .
article_snippet: Hospitals are being encouraged to park seriously ill patients on trolleys in corridors to ease the A&E crisis.
article_snippet: It involves putting patients on trolleys outside the wards patients should be in while patients wait for a free bed instead of keeping patients in A&E.
article_snippet: desperate A&E doctors argue it is necessary to free up space in overcrowded casualty units.
article_snippet: Dr Adrian Boyle, an A&E consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and a prominent RCEM member, argued it was better to have patients waiting on corridor trolleys, after patients had been seen and assessed, than languishing outside A&E in queuing ambulances.
article_snippet: Casualties are often crammed because patients cannot be shifted elsewhere in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge due to lack of beds –
article_snippet: Studies show that when A&Es are crowded, patients fare worse and death rates can rise.
article_snippet: With hospitals – and A&Es in particular – getting busier every year, Dr Boyle said action had to be taken to better manage the rising flow of patients.
article_snippet: Dr Katherine Henderson, an A&E consultant at St Thomas’s Hospital in London, said: ‘It is not acceptable to have people waiting in the emergency department, out of sight of the rest of St Thomas’s Hospital.
highlights_snippet: Involves putting patients on trolleys outside wards while waiting for bed .
  