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Labour questions Johnson over NHS commitments
Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth has written to the new Prime Minister requesting more detail on his NHS funding commitments.
Following on from Boris Johnson’s first speeches as Prime Minister, Ashworth asked for details on exactly where the 20 hospital upgrades, mentioned by Johnson, will take place and how much funding will be allocated to each hospital.
The MP for Leicester South has also called for details on what ‘waiting times’ would be addressed and what plans are in place to ensure funds get to frontline services. He wrote: “Does this relate to the four hour A&E waiting time target, which has not been met for almost four years, or to the 62 day cancer waiting time target, which has not been met since December 2015?”
Ashworth said that ‘years of cuts are pushing hospitals to the brink’ and that the NHS now faces a staggering £6 billion repair bill, £3 billion of which is considered ‘high or significant risk’.
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