Concerned parents are flocking to hospitals with concerns over their children’s health following the Strep A outbreak.
is on its knees. The scenes were like nothing I could ever have imagined. It was absolutely heaving. You could not even navigate around the waiting room.
‘Every child looked very, very unwell. There was a boy next to us whose lips had turned blue as he couldn’t breathe properly.‘The nurses looked completely fed up and broken, which I totally understand. I’m very much a champion of the NHS.’
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