Tory NHS lies may derail election campaign after health bosses highlight staffing crisis
The reality of the Tory NHS: Jill Woolley, a former NHS worker, who has dementia, was forced to wait six hours for treatment on a trolley inches away from overworked NHS staff. That is what Tory cuts have done to the UK’s once-proud health service.
Remember when Tories from Boris Johnson down were falling over themselves to boast about building 40 new hospitals?
Then they were fact-checked, and it turned out there was enough money for just six NHS trusts that had a hospital in desperate need of rebuilding.
A further 21 trusts were earmarked for “seed” funding, to help plans that would not come to fruition until the end of the next decade.
So the “40 new hospitals” claim was a big lie, really.
And now NHS leaders are making dire warnings about under-staffing at hospitals across England – which is the Tories’ responsibility.
So instead of being benevolent providers who catered for all patients’ needs, the Tories have in fact been shown up as skinflints who are starving the system:
Hospitals are so short of doctors and nurses that patients’ safety and quality of care are under threat, senior NHS leaders have warned in a dramatic intervention in the general election campaign
Nine out of 10 hospital bosses in England fear understaffing across the service has become so severe that patients’ health could be damaged. In addition, almost six in 10 (58%) believe this winter will be the toughest yet for the service.
It seems the Tories know this can cause them serious harm:
The views expressed by senior NHS figures on Tuesday will heighten the anxiety in Conservative ranks that the health service’s growing problems risk derailing the party’s campaign in an election members hoped would be dominated by Brexit.
So what will they do?
Any new announcements will be greeted with scepticism because of the “40 hospitals” deception.
Health will certainly be under discussion in the leader debate on ITV this evening (November 19), so it will be fun to watch Mr Johnson squirm.
Will you be bringing popcorn?
Source: Nine in 10 NHS bosses say staffing crisis endangering patients | Society | The Guardian
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