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It’s not a crisis, David Cameron insists. It’s a “short-term pressure issue”. Fifteen hospitals may be on emergency measures; accident and emergency departments may have just recorded their worst ever performance; 21,000 people may have had to wait up to 12 hours on trolleys in the past fortnight, with a tent set up outside Swindon’s Great Western hospital to cope with the overload.
So far as the prime minister is concerned, however, this is all scaremongering and Labour point-scoring. Egged on by an echo-chamber press, Cameron accused Ed Miliband of trying to turn the NHS into a political weapon. But five years into his government, the Tory leader clearly has no one to blame but himself. This has all the hallmarks of a 1979-style “crisis, what crisis?” moment.
It was Cameron, after all, who insisted his priorities could be summed up “in three letters: NHS”. Acutely aware of the public’s unswerving commitment to Britain’s most popular institution, he pledged there would be no more “disruptive reorganisations” and to ringfence health spending
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...isis-corporate-feasting-cameron-privatisation
So far as the prime minister is concerned, however, this is all scaremongering and Labour point-scoring. Egged on by an echo-chamber press, Cameron accused Ed Miliband of trying to turn the NHS into a political weapon. But five years into his government, the Tory leader clearly has no one to blame but himself. This has all the hallmarks of a 1979-style “crisis, what crisis?” moment.
It was Cameron, after all, who insisted his priorities could be summed up “in three letters: NHS”. Acutely aware of the public’s unswerving commitment to Britain’s most popular institution, he pledged there would be no more “disruptive reorganisations” and to ringfence health spending
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...isis-corporate-feasting-cameron-privatisation