Nurses report that some end-of-life care is being provided in hospital corridors, according to a poll cited by multiple outlets. Respondents say time pressures and problems with staffing levels can make it difficult to provide appropriate care to terminal patients.
The reporting links the corridor care to broader capacity and resourcing challenges, including insufficient staffing and competing clinical demands that limit how and where care can be delivered. While both outlets focus on the same headline findings, they emphasize different aspects of the problem: one stresses the corridor setting and the staffing context, while the other highlights time pressures and staffing levels as barriers to care.
Taken together, the coverage indicates a workforce and workload strain affecting how end-of-life care is delivered, with the poll serving as the primary basis for the claims. The accounts do not provide further detail in the excerpts shared, such as the poll’s methodology or the location or size of participating services.
