Dear John,

Last year, 518,000 people faced ‘trolley’ waits of 12 hours or more in A&E according to our research. That's a 25% rise on 2023 and nearly 400-times higher than in 2015.

Due to a shocking shortage in hospital beds, hundreds of thousands of people were left on trolleys to wait for hours or even days in busy corridors, delaying their care and putting their lives at risk.

With one hospital found to be advertising for ‘corridor care’ nurses, we are seeing the normalisation of ‘corridor care’ in yet another NHS scandal.

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These A&E waiting times are truly deadly, with it being estimated that there were 14,000 excess deaths in 2023 due to long A&E waits.

While thousands wait in agony, the Government is asleep at the wheel. This week, I called on the Health Secretary to announce an emergency plan to increase the number of hospital beds and end the shocking trend towards corridor care.

We are calling for bed occupancy levels to be brought down to the safe level of 85%, from its current level of 93%. We’re also pushing for a pandemic-style emergency recruitment campaign to bring staff out of retirement and back into the workforce.

Please share our social media post to spread the word and support our emergency plan to protect patients and save lives:

We all know the NHS is in crisis after years of Conservative failure and neglect, but we must continue to push the Labour government to act bolder and faster.

With this cold winter taking hold, cases of flu are pushing many hospitals to the brink - we must take action now to protect the NHS and its patients.