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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Adam Aspinall

Tory MP admits NHS is 'broken' as man, 87, forced to wait 15 hours for ambulance

A Tory MP has admitted that the NHS is 'broken'.

Cherilyn Mackrory spoke out after The Mirror revealed the ordeal of 87-year-old David Wakeley who was forced to wait in a makeshift shelter outside for 15 hours overnight with multiple broken ribs and pelvis.

And that incident came on the same day as a 90-year-old woman with a fractured hip waited 40 hours for an ambulance.

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