🛒🏥As we limp into another new year propped up by caffeine and budget cuts, there’s one absurdity we should leave behind in 2025: hospital corridor care. That’s right—the proud British tradition of treating patients like abandoned shopping trolleys in the NHS’s cold, flickering hallways. Because nothing screams “world-class healthcare” like getting your appendix out next to a vending machine and a traffic cone.
🧻 NHS or IKEA Maze of Suffering?
Forget the drama of TV medical shows—real-life patients are getting diagnosed between cleaning cupboards and left on stretchers beside fire exits for days. Privacy? LOL. Dignity? Optional. Want to die with your loved ones around? Too bad—they’re stuck behind a “staff only” door that hasn’t opened since 2003.
We’ve normalised this nonsense. Politicians nod solemnly on the news, wring their hands, and then go back to voting down pay rises for nurses while approving tax breaks for their donors’ private clinics. Meanwhile, junior doctors juggle 14 patients, a clipboard, and an existential crisis under fluorescent lights that haven’t worked properly since the Brown government.
And the solution? Not more beds. Not more staff. Just… more corridors. 🚑🏃♀️💨
If we treated broken lifts the way we treat broken systems, the whole country would be commuting via abseil.
This isn’t a staffing issue. It’s not even just a funding issue. It’s a moral rot. A systemic shrug. A political failure on a trolley with a drip.
Why are we okay with this? Why are patients spending their final hours parked next to a bin? If you’ve had any experience with corridor care—firsthand, family, friend—we want your voice. Anger, sarcasm, despair, demand: drop it in the blog comments 💬💣
👇 Hit comment, hit like, hit share. Tag a minister, tag a mate. Let’s shove this failure back under the spotlight.
The best stories, quotes, and roasts will be published in the next issue of the magazine. 🗞️🔥
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