A JUNIOR doctor from Oxford has claimed the NHS is a ‘Grenfell Tower waiting to happen’ because of austerity cuts and staff shortages.

Dr Rachel Clarke spoke at a fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday.

Warning of an imminent winter ‘crisis’, she said: “We know that patients will die, probably on trolleys again this year because there is not enough funding for a safe standard of care.

“The NHS is a Grenfell Tower waiting to happen.”