JEREMY CORBYN implored Theresa May to take action to “save the NHS from death by a thousand cuts” at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions.

Mr Corbyn said the NHS is being starved of resources and people are “dying unnecessarily in the back of ambulances and in hospital corridors”.

The Labour leader urged her to “face up to the reality.” Shouts of “resign” aimed at Ms May could be heard behind him as the lame-duck PM tried to defend her government’s record.

He went on: “GP numbers are down, nurses are leaving, the NHS is in crisis.

“Tory MPs might not like it, but I ask this question of the Prime Minister: When is she going to face up to the reality and take action to save the NHS from death by a thousand cuts?”

Mr Corbyn said: “It’s been reported that a man froze to death waiting 16 hours for an ambulance. Last week, a young gentleman called Chris wrote to me saying: ‘My friend's 93-year-old father waited four hours for an ambulance after a fall’.”

These are not isolated cases, he said. “The Prime Minister is, frankly, in denial about the state of the NHS.

And he touched on Ms May’s Tuesday Cabinet meeting reprimand for Boris Johnson, who had dared say that the NHS should get an extra £5 billion post-Brexit. “Even the absent Foreign Secretary recognises it, but the Prime Minister isn’t listening,” Mr Corbyn said.

The PM resorted to her usual health mantra, claiming that the only part of the NHS that has seen a cut in funding is “the NHS in Wales under a Labour government”.

She added that the NHS is seeing the recruitment of more doctors and nurses, and new treatments for patients.