“Save the NHS” demonstrators outside Warrington Hospital

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PLACARD-bearing demonstrators were outside Warrington Hospital on Saturday as part of a national campaign to “Save the NHS”
The demonstrators, who included health service staff, patients and others, gave out leaflets calling on the government to make more funding available to the NHS.
They also warned of the dangers of privatising the health service or out-sourcing sections of it.
Campaigners also manned a stall in the town centre, at Market Gate, where more leaflets were distributed.

Warrington South MP Faisal Rashid joined the campaigners.
He said: “I was proud to stand alongside fellow NHS campaigners outside Warrington Hospital to fight for our fantastic NHS and NHS staff.
“It is a disgrace that after eight years of neglect under the Conservatives our NHS is now at crisis point.
“For too long our NHS and social care services have been systematically underfunded. Underfunding is so severe the A&E target has been effectively abandoned for a year.
“Labour has warned repeatedly that the NHS funding squeeze imposed by the Government is damaging standards of patient care. It is time to end the cuts and provide the funding that our NHS needs.
“A Labour Government would stand up for our NHS. We would give the NHS the funding it urgently needs, cut waiting lists by guaranteeing treatment within 18 weeks, put safe staffing levels into law and ease the pressure on the NHS by properly funding social care. A Labour Government will give the NHS the support and funding it needs.”


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  1. Ah, the politics of the NHS, and MPs who are instructed to comment on matters of which they have no real depth of understanding. So here is a thought, given that it takes normally 5 years at University, and more for the real high flyers who undertake research qualifications, followed by 2 years learning the basics of the job, followed by another decade…or maybe longer to learn ones speciality, what did, I ask, the previous Labour Government in particular, and the previous Conservative Government prior to that do about training up the doctors that we need, coupled to which they had the demographic data which clearly showed that a substantial number of doctors, many of whom, thankfully, came here from the Indian sub-continent to make up the numbers, will all be retiring in the next few years.

  2. Pretty disgraceful (though expected) that you use such an important demonstration to enable typical bandstanding from a Labour MP. Where are the interviews with the people who attended the demonstration? Why have you chosen to publish so much rhetoric from an MP and ignored the opinions of the public demonstrators?

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