Labour A&E doctor and MP Rosena Allin Khan has called on people not to avoid hospital if they need medical help - as she slammed the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr Allin-Khan has been working at the family support liaison team at London's makeshift Nightingale Hospital, phoning people whose loved ones have died.
Appearing on Sky's Sophie Ridge on Sunday Ms Allin Khan urged people who were in need of medical treatment not to avoid heading into A&E.
"We're waiting for you," she said.
Dr Allin-Khan also slammed the government and said it made her think "how many of these grieving families could not have had to be in this position".
"People have been robbed of the ability to say goodbye in a humane way."
She said: "I find myself coming home heartbroken and asking myself how much of this could have been avoided".
She added that the UK went into lockdown too late, PPE remains undelivered and the government is still struggling to use all the tests it has.
Labour's Shadow Health Minister added that the UK must also begin recording death in care homes in the daily total announced by the government.
She said: "We won't know whether lockdown measures are working until we are recording all of the deaths."
On the 100,000 tests a day target ministers are battling to reach by the end of the month, the Tooting MP added: "We have to be clear that is delivered on and not just a promise - it can't just be capacity, it has to be delivered."
It came as a top medic restated fears that we could be more than a year away from a vaccine.
Speaking to Sky News' Sophie Ridge On Sunday show, Professor Gina Radford said people should be "realistic" about the prospect of a vaccine.
She said: "Firstly we haven't at the moment got a vaccine so we are having to start from scratch.
"We haven't got a hugely good track record with vaccines for this particular virus, coronavirus, the family of viruses.
"But having said that everything is being thrown at it, there are researchers all over the world trying to identify a vaccine.
"We have never seen anything like the effort that is being put to discover this vaccine."
