The true scale of the secret Tory plan for cuts and closures across the NHS has been revealed by the Health Service Journal – Ashworth

Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow
Health Secretary,
responding to leaked reports in the Health Service Journal said: 

“With 48 hours to go until
the General Election the true scale of the secret Tory plan for cuts and
closures across the NHS has been revealed by the Health Service Journal.

“We now know if the Tories are
re-elected on Thursday we’ll see hospital wards closed, waiting times growing,
treatments rationed and staff cut.

“The fact that NHS bosses have
described this as the ‘most extreme and difficult NHS finance process they had
experienced’ and would ‘challenge the value basis of the NHS’ will make
chilling reading for patients and their families who deserve the very best
levels of care.

“Every single day the Tories are
in power hospitals are being left to crumble, staff are being let down, waiting
lists are growing and patients are being denied the care they need and
deserve. 

“Let’s be clear: these new, secret
Tory plans will only be stopped by electing a Labour Government on Thursday.

"The NHS cannot survive five
more years of a Tory government. That is why, Labour will pledge to bring the
health service back from the brink with a multi-billion pound rescue package.
The British people deserve nothing less.”

Ends

Notes to editors

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