Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, commenting on figures showing the A&E target has been missed and the number of cancelled operations is the highest for a decade, said:
“David Cameron was boasting about the performance of the NHS this week, but these figures show he is shockingly complacent and completely out of touch with what is happening on the frontline.
“It’s getting harder to see a GP, tens of thousands of operations have been cancelled and we’ve just had the worst year in A&E for a decade with almost a million patients waiting longer than four hours.
“There’s only one person to blame for the crisis in our NHS and that’s David Cameron. He wasted £3 billion and caused chaos with a damaging NHS reorganisation he promised wouldn’t happen.
“These figures are yet further evidence that you cannot trust the Tories with the NHS.”