
Ambulances with patients are queuing outside A&E departments overwhelmed by demand for care
(Picture: PA Wire)The crisis-hit NHS “can’t keep up” with “phenomenal demand” and has too few staff to treat patients safely, senior MPs warned on Wednesday.
Steve Brine, Conservative chairman of the Commons health and social care committee, told of the “terrifying situation” facing Britain that the health service will not be sustainable if far more is not done to prevent ill health in the country.