Flu admissions: alarming consequences from lack of winterpoofing

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Responding to the "concerning rate" of people being admitted to the hospital with flu, Liberal Democrat Health and Social Care spokesperson Helen Morgan MP said:  

“The NHS was left without a robust winterproofing plan and the consequences have been incredibly alarming. 

“As ambulances queue up outside and patients queue up inside emergency departments across the country, people are facing dangerously long waits for medical help.

"With the previous Conservative government leaving the NHS in a dire state, Labour should have intervened immediately to prevent hospitals being further overwhelmed. Instead, patients have been left to suffer.

“We cannot let this situation spiral further out of control. The government must come forward with a plan to put in place measures to ease the pressure on the NHS as the Liberal Democrats have been calling for for months."

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Reported by the BBC here