MORE SHOCKING NHS NEWS: NHS patients are regularly treated in mop cupboards due to overcrowding

Hospital patients are routinely treated in TV rooms, mop cupboards and corridors because hospitals are too full, a survey has revealed.

Along with the increased risk of infection, some patients were even known to miss meals because staff were not aware of their presence.

‘Areas used to accommodate patients are also used as storage areas and therefore have linen and spare equipment in them. One patient described it as an overspill car park,’ one nurse said.

Another said: ‘If a patient’s condition suddenly deteriorated resulting in them having a cardiac arrest, we would not be able to get the crash trolley to them.’

Almost two thirds of nurses were aware of patients being placed in areas not designed for clinical care, the poll for Nursing Times showed. Of those who were aware of the practice, 29 per cent said it happened every day, 29 per cent said several times a week and 11 per cent said it happened at least once a week.

A total of 83 per cent of nurses said they had raised the problem with senior staff but only four per cent said the practice had been stopped.

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