CQC report reveals damning evidence of the Government’s inability to maintain health services – Jonathan Ashworth

Jonathan
Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, responding to the
CQC State of Care Report 2017, said:

“The
detail of this CQC report reveals damning evidence of the Government’s
inability to maintain health services at the standard which patients expect.

“The NHS is now running
at ‘full stretch’ with hospitals full to unsafe levels, and ongoing problems in
staffing and recruitment which Tory ministers have failed to grasp.

“The Government must
step in and give our health and care system the resources needed to provide the
best possible care. With services already straining at the seams, patients will
be increasingly at risk if Ministers refuse the NHS the support it needs. Next
month the Chancellor in his budget must finally put the NHS on a secure
financial footing for the long term.”

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