Heidi
Alexander MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to
quarter four financial and performance figures from NHS Improvement, said:
“The
NHS is now in the deepest cash crisis in its history.
“The
Tories have lost complete control of hospital finances and it’s patients who
are paying the price.
“Waiting
times continue to go up and up and more and more patients are having to wait
longer for vital tests and treatment.
“If
it is the case that hospital bosses are being put under pressure to fiddle the
figures to save face for Jeremy Hunt, then an urgent investigation must take
place.
"This
is a crisis that the Tories can no longer choose to ignore. We need an urgent
plan to get hospital finances back on track and to improve patient care.”
Proof, the Tories are systematically distorting the NHS ready for its replacement by private hospitals, run for profit, using an insurance model.
The NHS will not exist within five years of a Conservative election victory. – Oliver Letwin, June 2004
