Will Forster calls for Parliament to be recalled over the NHS crisis   

The Liberal Democrat Parliamentary candidate for Woking, Will Forster has joined the Lib Dem party's demands for Parliament to be recalled amid estimates that 500 people across the country each week are dying due to A&E delays.

In recent days ambulance services across the country have declared "critical incidents", whilst ambulance staff have also been urged to conserve oxygen supplies due to a surge in demand.

The MP candidate Will Forster is demanding the Government pass an emergency health plan and declare a "national major incident" this week to save lives and ease the pressure on overstretched nurses, doctors and paramedics.

The Lib Dems have set out a 5 point winter plan to tackle the ambulance crisis including launching a campaign to recruit more paramedics, increasing the number of hospital beds and boosting funding for social care.

Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate for Woking, Councillor Will Forster, said:

"This is a life or death situation for people in Woking and right across the country."

"The NHS is collapsing in front of our eyes whilst the Prime Minister and Health Secretary are nowhere to be seen. This is a national crisis and therefore its only right MPs get back to Westminster to fix the problem. The Prime Minister must declare a major incident now to put the NHS back on a pandemic-style footing amid soaring numbers of deaths."

"We have already seen in our own area that ambulance waiting times have reached dangerous levels whilst so many of us have stories of long waits at A&E. This is on top of face-to-face GP and NHS dentist appointments being almost impossible to find. Something has to be done."