Some A&E patients could be treated in hospital car parks under alarming new emergency plans designed to combat the crisis in the NHS.
An urgent recovery plan for the National Health Service was announced in the House of Commons yesterday by Health Secretary Steve Barclay, who admitted that "the experience for some patients and staff" in emergency care had "not been acceptable" in recent weeks.
He blamed crippling waits for treatment at hospitals on a combination of flu pressures and continued hospital admissions for Covid, which he said had combined with "exceptional levels of scarlet fever activity" and an increase in strep A.
