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John Siddle & Nathan Russell

NHS heroes crying in car parks as patients that could have been saved pass away

Tired NHS heroes have been seen in tears in hospital car parks after losing patients during shifts, The Mirror reports. This news comes as a junior A&E doctor said Conservative politicians should be jailed for wilful neglect.

Up to 500 people a week are dying because of delays in emergency care with demand reaching crippling levels, with a lack of beds, ambulance queues and difficulties filling staff vacancies, with a GP comparing surgeries to "conveyor belts" because of these issues.

Junior doctor Andrew Meyerson, 40, spoke of the tough emotions the NHS's struggle invokes on its employees: "My colleagues cry in the car park, shell-shocked, haunted by the substandard care they have been forced to deliver. Our resuscitation area is full. There are too many cardiac arrests.

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