As record numbers of patients endure painfully long waits in A&E and are left stranded on trollies in corridors, the Tories ’ shameful neglect is plain to see.
Starving the NHS of cash – spending on health is growing at the slowest rate since the 1950s and is not going to increase before the end of the decade – is a fatal mistake.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt should hang his head in shame.
The growing, ageing population places extra pressure on the care system, a problem exacerbated by the lack of funding.
We will only see a cure if we force the Tories into investing what is needed, instead of pretending everything is fine and dandy.
NHS staff are miracle workers nearing the end of their tether and we must jolt hapless Hunt out of his complacency before it is too late.
Nobody wants to start shroud-waving, but lives will be at risk unless we revive our nation’s most precious public service.
Protest, and the NHS will survive. But if we do nothing, the penny-pinching Tories will slowly kill off this most vital of resources.
