Comment: Canceling operations for cancer patients. Chaos in emergency rooms. Government “takes social care away from older people and makes it harder to see a GP.” “Operation waiting lists.” It’s “not working.”
We couldn’t have said it better.
Shafi Ahmed said:
“As a practising surgeon, looking after cancer patients, it is very difficult to have to tell a patient who has prepared themselves for a major procedure that their operation has been cancelled for non-clinical reasons.”
“[...]the NHS is simply not working.”
Labour’s shadow health secretary Andy Burnham:
“Standards of patient care are slipping by the week and now more and more people get ready for an operation only to face a last minute postponement.”
“The chaos in A&E [emergency rooms] is spreading through the NHS. Hospitals are in danger of becoming overwhelmed as the Government takes social care away from older people and makes it harder to see a GP. These cancellations help to explain why operation waiting lists are at a six-year high.”
3,000 ops cancelled as demand rises
Press Association, Dec. 28, 2014