Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to the latest Winter Situation Report Data, said:

“Theresa May’s NHS crisis is getting worse by the week. Twenty-seven hospital trusts have warned they are unable to deliver comprehensive care and on average fifty hospitals are calling in extra support every single day.

“The Prime Minister can’t keep dismissing this as a ‘small number of incidents’. Her response has been derisory and she needs to set out what action she is going to take to make sure patients can access the services they need.

“Labour is calling for urgent investment in social care and a commitment to put the NHS on a long term sustainable footing in the March Budget to avoid a Winter like this again. Quite simply the Government’s policy of underfunding and mismanaging the NHS has left hospitals on the brink.”