LOCAL MP Gideon Amos has backed calls to end lengthy A&E waits and ‘corridor care’ for patients in hospitals.

Mr Amos said it was disgraceful that nationally patients were still being treated in corridors and thousands were waiting more than 24 hours.

He said locally, staff in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, were doing ‘heroic work’ with inadequate facilities, but ‘enough is enough’.

Mr Amos said: “The Government needs to enact our Lib Dem plan now to get our NHS back where it needs to be, something to be protected and defended from underfunding as well as from those who simply want to privatise healthcare.”

He said Government investment in new maternity and paediatric facilities in Musgrove was welcome, but scheduling it for 2033 was far too late.