2 Temmuz 2014 Çarşamba

Labour draws summertime battle lines on NHS

An NHS nurse checks his watch

Ed Miliband has accused David Cameron of presiding over a deterioration of providers in the NHS. Photograph: Ian Waldie/Getty Photos




Labour is to target its pre-election campaigning above the summer season on the NHS following Ed Miliband accused David Cameron of presiding above a deterioration in remedy soon after the reorganisation of the wellness services by Andrew Lansley.


The Labour leader mentioned the prime minister was to blame for the deterioration in providers right after a series of targets have been missed.


Miliband said: “You promised the reorganisation in the NHS would make items far better – it is produced things worse. Worse on entry to cancer treatment method, worse on A&ampE waits, worse on GP accessibility, the NHS is getting worse on your observe. And there’s only 1 person to blame and it’s you.”


The Labour leader attacked the prime minister as they clashed at prime minister’s questions in excess of a series of statistics on the NHS. Miliband opened by asking the prime minister whether the variety of people getting to wait more than the assured two months for cancer treatment method has gone up or down given that 2010.


The prime minister replied by answering a diverse question as he mentioned the amount of men and women treated for cancer has enhanced by 15% and the coalition is meeting the “key waiting time target, specifically the waiting time target for accident and emergency”. Miliband explained that the government has missed the cancer target for the initial time as he cited Macmillan Cancer Support, which has warned that much more lives are becoming put at danger, and Cancer Research Uk, which has stated: “This isn’t just a missed target, some patients are currently being failed.”


Cameron once again replied by answering a various query as he stated the government has introduced a cancer drug fund which is treating 50,000 individuals.


The two leaders then exchanged a series of statistics on accident and emergency waiting occasions. The Labour MP Jack Dromey asked what Cameron would say to a constituent who has been waiting 33  weeks for a hip operation. The prime minister said: “I say he needs to search at the figures. The figures present that the numbers of folks waiting longer than 18 weeks, 26 weeks and 52 weeks to start remedy … are lower than at any time.”


Even so, his reply prompted an intervention on a point of purchase from the shadow overall health secretary, Andy Burnham: “The prime minister appeared to suggest that the number of folks who waited longer than 18 weeks for an operation had gone down given that his reorganisation. I have the figures here – April 2010, 20,662 waited longer than 18 weeks. April 2014, 29,417. The variety has gone up. Prior to the prime minister leaves the chamber do not you feel he may well correct the record, Mr Speaker?”


Cameron said: “I can inform the residence the numbers waiting longer than 18, 26 and 52 weeks to start treatment is reduce than at any time underneath the last government. These are the details. Yesterday [Labour] had been caught out with dodgy statistics – I  hink they have just accomplished it once again.”


Labour accused the prime minister of getting misleading as it confirmed that the party would make the NHS the principal emphasis of its summertime campaigning. A get together supply stated: “We are established to use the NHS as the centrepiece of our summer time campaigning. We are established to display individuals how items are going backwards underneath this government and we are established to make it 1 of the major troubles in the run up to the following election.”




Labour draws summertime battle lines on NHS

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