Labour MP Jess Phillips waited in hospital with her father for "around 17 hours" as he tried to get seen at A&E. The MP for Birmingham Yardley live tweeted the experience, which came as new figures showed a record number of people are enduring long waits in emergency rooms.
Ms Phillips first tweeted that she was in A&E with her dad at around 9pm on Wednesday. At around 2.30pm on Thursday, after updating her followers throughout the night, she confirmed they were home.
She wrote in her original tweet: “My dad is ill, my brother called 111 at 10am. They said he needed a paramedic and would send an ambulance. It never came.
