There are many images emerging from Accident and Emergency hospital departments that give a horrifying insight into the crisis in our National Health Service.
In recent days and weeks this newspaper has published images of people lying in pain on the floor of packed emergency departments, rows of ambulances queued outside hospitals with patients in the back and elderly and sick people waiting for hours on end on trolleys in chaotic corridors.
This weekend we reported on the grim accounts of doctors working in Aintree Hospital's A&E department, with one doctor stating: "This isn't healthcare, it is now a lottery whether you will survive."
