Andy Burnham MP, Labour Shadow’s Health Secretary, responding to the National Audit Office’s report on the financial sustainability of NHS bodies, said:
“This report delivers a devastating verdict on the NHS re-organisation David Cameron said would not happen. It has brought the NHS to the brink of bankruptcy by wasting £3 billion.
“Across England, the NHS is running out of money and patient care is heading backwards. It is clear Ministers have lost control of NHS finances, with a massive deterioration in the last year.
“The NHS is heading for the rocks. It proves David Cameron cannot be trusted with it. He must produce an urgent plan to show how he’ll turn the NHS around.
“Labour will rescue the NHS with our £2.5 billion Time to Care package which will fund new staff including 20,000 more nurses – investment the Tories will not match.”
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