Here’s more bad news the Tories tried to bury under Brexit
As the UK rumbles towards a crucial Brexit vote on 12 March, it seems the Conservatives are also using Brexit to bury bad news. Luckily, shadow health minister Jon Ashworth is having none of it.
NHS targets
Speaking in the commons on 11 March, Ashworth tore into the latest controversial plans to ditch NHS four-hour targets for Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments. He said:
You may have seen today that NHS England have announced the trialling of the abolition of the four-hour waiting time target in A&E departments… [This]… target allowed the last Labour government to deliver some of the lowest waiting times in history. And it hasn’t been met under this government since July 2015 and, indeed, 2.8 million patients waited beyond four hours in A&E last year.
He also pointed out that removing this target should only have been based on “clear medical evidence” from healthcare professionals, not “pressure from Downing Street”.
Ashworth also questioned why health secretary Matt Hancock hadn’t made any statement about this as “a basic courtesy”. When he pushed further to ask if Hancock had shown any intention of making a statement, the answer was ‘no’.
After years of Tory austerity, understaffing, cuts and privatisation more patients are waiting longer in A&E and for treatment.
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And now they want to ditch the targets.
Changes should be based on clinical consensus not Downing Street pressure. pic.twitter.com/xVI7ATpE7W
— Jonathan Ashworth (@JonAshworth) March 12, 2019
NHS crisis
Yes, Brexit affects us all. But in the meantime, vital services in the UK are close to breaking point after nine years of Conservative-led austerity. From education to the NHS, thousands of children and adults across the UK are paying the price. As Ashworth also said in a statement:
The reality is years of austerity, understaffing and wider cuts have left our A&Es overcrowded and in crisis. Anyone arriving at A&E deserves quick, quality care but unless we see more funding for the NHS, a credible staffing plan alongside significant funding for our social care sector, patients will continue to be let down regardless of what targets are in place.
It remains to be seen whether May will push through her latest Brexit deal. But for the Tories to use that crisis to hide from others and bury even more bad news is unforgivable.
Featured images via Wikimedia – Rwendland / NHS England
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MAY 2019 local area voting in Pendle area of Lancashire.
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To all voter of P.B.C. + Colne area including the young + old
May 2019 is time to vote and remove the unjust Tory party Cllr in our area you will not get another chance to show your discontent, of the way they are trashing local areas Tory Govt + its local area Cllr in P.B.C + Colne like they now.
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LINK to post 13.3.2019
Theresa May’s authority collapses as her Brexit deal gets crushed again
PART-1
Ms May is now dead in the water it about time Tory party members held a new G.E. now and picked a new leader to sort out David Cameron’s mess + Ms May mess on the E.U. leaving problems.
All of Tory party + it’s voters must take FULL responsibility, FULL accountability, now as they voted Ms May in to the job has P.M. (by in party voting ONLY) All Tory voters –voted for the Tory MANIFESTO papers that (instructed)
Their party M.P. + Minister to trash our country plus all deals with E.U. To keep us in the E.U. forever & ever now paying in more cash, getting No say on laws made in E.U. having No say on tariffs on deals struck by any company in the U.K. Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, as well!
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Funny how bad news for NHS England spins to be the UK NHS. Yes there are problems some not as bad as others though. It is time England went it’s own way and became independent that way the rest of us would get some respite from the ills that having England as a partner(ruler) causes too much power lies with the one country of the UK, that brings us back to the spin of England’s ill becoming all of the UK’s ills.