The Tories have reacted with their normal offended faces, despite the fact that under Cameron’s administration they would be making even more cuts, albeit sneakily through the back door.
In the Guardian, Conservative health spokesman, Andrew Lansley said: "Yet again, Labour ministers are failing to be straight with the British people. Andy Burnham [the secretary of state] promised to protect the NHS, but now we find out that his department has been drawing up secret plans for swingeing cuts.”
Typical party politics, criticise the other party for doing something which they’re not doing (the report wasn’t even ordered by the Department of Health) when they plan to do the same thing anyway
It’s not just those ‘pen pushers’ everyone who reads the Daily Mail hates, whose jobs would be cut, clinical staff could see their jobs disappear, when hospitals are already stretched for staff.
The Daily Mail has another shocking revelation, that:
“Patients may have to be discharged from hospital much earlier, outpatient appointments could be scaled back, and minor treatments such as varicose vein removals and tonsillectomies may be banned.”
They’ve either got some secret information that no other news source has found, or more likely they’re making it up.
Nice post - esp. your closing sentence. The nonsense the Mail publishes is dangerous.
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