Patients are sitting in “apocalyptic”, sweaty A&E waiting rooms for up to 50 hours with no guarantee of water to drink, it has been claimed. In a week when Health Secretary Wes Streeting vowed to end 'corridor care', the grim reality of the state of the NHS has been laid bare.

Writing in the Manchester Evening News , Williams described how nurses burst into tears as they apologised for waiting times in a “violent” environment where patients and staff are “unsafe”. One of his sources described spending a “sleepless night” there with “limited updates”, “no sense of progress” and an “occasionally violent atmosphere that feels neither like a safe space or a place to get better”. Another writer at the same local paper spent a Tuesday night in A&E, and says it felt more like a busy Saturd

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