Elderly patients were left watching others die as they waited for hours in hospital corridors , a shock report reveals. The charity Age UK warned corridor care is now a crisis in plain sight in the NHS , with people waiting days for a bed. One patient likened treatment on trolleys to war films with “queues of stretchers and people suffering”. One woman died from a heart attack after being left to wait. Another was “lost” on a disused corridor. A man was left hooked up to an IV drip in a chair