In a radio interview health secretary Wes Streeting said: ‘We are taking people in ambulances to emergency departments (EDs) to die,’ underlining the crisis in EDs and the issues it creates such as corridor care. This ongoing ED crisis results in harm and indignity for patients and moral injury for frontline nurses. Funding for additional social care beds could help provide a temporary and dignified solution for people living with frailty unnecessarily stuck in acute hospitals.