Ministers should mount a national, ‘Cobra-style’ response to the unprecedented crisis in frontline NHS services, Labour ’s Wes Streeting says.
New figures show one in every three NHS trusts has declared the highest level of emergency since Christmas - with hospitals overcrowded and patient safety potentially compromised.
More trusts have declared ‘critical incidents’ since December 21st than in January last year (2022), when the omicron Covid variant was still running rampant across the UK.
