Fears over patient safety in the strike-hit NHS grew on Monday as official figures showed more than 22,000 Londoners waited over 12 hours to be seen in A&E in one month alone.
Thousands of appointments and operations have also been cancelled due to the walk-outs by doctors, nurses and paramedics. As hospitals started trying to catch up on the delays caused by four days of industrial action by 47,000 junior doctors, the Royal College of Nursing issued a stark warning to ministers and health bosses that they had just two weeks to plan for its upcoming all-out strike.
