Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to the Government announcement on NHS trusts in special measures, said: 

“These particular hospitals are struggling even more than most under this Government and extra support is welcome.  

“When the trusts were put into special measures, David Cameron was told his inadequate staffing levels were to blame. He failed to heed that lesson and continued to preside over thousands of nursing job losses.

“The Government’s re-organisation, nurse cuts and A&E crisis is making care problems more likely, not less.”

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