Andrew Gwynne MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to today’s warning from health professionals that the NHS is at ‘breaking point’, said:

“David Cameron chose to put the NHS on this financial knife-edge when he wasted £3 billion on a damaging re-organisation.

“Everywhere you look, there are signs of an NHS now heading rapidly in the wrong direction. Labour has pledged an extra £2.5 billion over and above Tory plans to pay for 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 GPs. David Cameron has failed to match that investment.

“Patients are already seeing waiting times and cancer care heading downhill - people will fear that much worse will be in store next year. You can’t trust the Tories with the NHS.”

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