Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: NHS Corridor Care – Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Thursday, June 11, 2026

NHS Corridor Care – Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports

If politicians & policymakers regularly 'walked'
 all the corridors of Hodges' model -
 they would see the false economy 
of their combined incremental works.

Incremental? Yes, in first being a 'temporary measure', then having a deleterious impact as the duration per patient and number of patients on corridors increased.

Now to the situation when the standard of care is unsafe, sub-standard, and denigrates the NHS as a social institution.

The fact of insufficient beds and its effect on care (pathways) and patient (and family) experiences severely affects staff morale, as they recognise subtle abuse, a precursor to structural and attitudinal changes that foster, encourage and establish institutionalised harm.

Staff also realise that they risk being de-skilled, 're-educated' -
becoming less compassionate ... (a 'lesser Nurse') as corridor care 
and its consequences are normalised.

Ignoring demographic trends and without an alternative concerted 
preventive/health education and health promoting plan, this is the result 
of the health and social care funding and policy
of successive governments, enacted by NHS management.

NHS England: Corridor Care – Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/corridor-care-urgent-and-emergency-care-daily-situation-reports/