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The NHS is a “demoralised, degraded and confused” health service two years into a Government re-organisation, shadow health minister Andy Burnham has claimed. In a speech to union members in Birmingham today, Mr Burnham said the Government was “guilty of gross mismanagement of the NHS” which had left patients and staff “unsure who is responsible for what”. He also claimed one symptom of what he branded the “human price of this Government’s cost of living crisis” had been an increase of 145,000 more elderly admissions to hospitals for treatment of winter-linked conditions, since the last Labour government. In a key-note address, Mr Burnham said A&E as the barometer of the health service was in “seemingly permanent crisis”, with 633,000 more attendances nationally since the coalition came to power. In a speech entitled State Of The NHS, he claimed the problems afflicting emergency departments up and down the country had been caused by a top-down re-organisation which had left the NHS demoralised, while the Government’s failure to tackle the issue of the cost of living and a campaign of cuts which meant that social care was “on the verge of collapse”.
The NHS is a “demoralised, degraded and confused” health service two years into a Government re-organisation, shadow health minister Andy Burnham has claimed.
One of the Chuckle Brothers has told a court it was “a complete surprise” to hear claims veteran DJ Dave Lee Travis indecently assaulted a stage hand at a pantomime they were starring in.
Hollywood stars have paid tribute to Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm.
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