Lib Dems say shocking hospital wait stats should “shake us to our core”

EMBARGO: 00:01 Thursday 15th May 

Responding to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimating that there were more than 16,600 deaths of patients linked to long waits in A&E for hospital beds last year, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:

“These figures should shake us to our core. People are dying needlessly in corridors and glorified cupboards as staff are stretched to breaking point, working in conditions that resembling the stuff on nightmares.

“This is where we must draw a line in the sand. The Conservatives led us to this point - an NHS on its knees and countless preventable deaths - but it is up to this Government to make sure that this never happens again.

“The Health Secretary must step up, free up much-needed hospital beds by overhauling social care as he has pledged to do and back our campaign to end corridor care by the end of this Parliament. That is what the public deserves.”

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