{"id":330481,"date":"2026-03-30T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/we-investigated-6-years-worth-of-corridor-care-court-documents\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T17:00:24","slug":"we-investigated-6-years-worth-of-corridor-care-court-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/we-investigated-6-years-worth-of-corridor-care-court-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"We investigated 6 years&#8217; worth of corridor care court documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/Kevg1c042xI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"We investigated 6 years' worth of corridor care court documents\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kevg1c042xI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Tom Frith, 66, from Cheshire, was rushed to the A&amp;E department at Leighton Hospital in June 2025, suffering with a temperature, confusion and struggling with his speech.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was carnage &#8211; bodies everywhere and nurses running around,&quot; Tom\u2019s wife, Julia Chard, told ITV News.<\/p>\n<p>Tom was left in a corridor for 36 hours, undiagnosed with a serious condition called encephalitis, which causes inflammation of the brain and requires urgent medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually diagnosed a week after he first attended A&amp;E, but due to the brain damage which had already occurred, Tom never recovered and died weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;No one should go through what Tom went through,&quot; said Julia.<\/p>\n<p>But ITV News can reveal that coroners have issued dozens of formal warnings about the deadly risks of &#8216;corridor care&#8217; and hospital overcrowding in England in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The health secretary has admitted that delivering on his promise to eradicate \u2019corridor care\u2019 by 2029 will not be an &quot;overnight fix&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Research by ITV News has found that since 2020, the government and hospital trusts have received 27 formal documents from coroners calling for action to prevent future deaths linked to a lack of hospital beds.<\/p>\n<p>But over that period, long waits in emergency departments have soared.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2020, around 2,800 patients in England waited more than 12 hours in A&amp;E to get a hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p>By January this year, that figure had rocketed to more than 70,000 &#8211; the highest on record.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Frith, 66, from Cheshire, was rushed to the A&amp;E department at Leighton Hospital in June 2025, suffering with a temperature, confusion and struggling with his speech. &quot;It was carnage &#8211; bodies everywhere and nurses running around,&quot; Tom\u2019s wife, Julia Chard, told ITV News. 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