Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Doctors 'having to apologise 20 times a day' for politicians' broken promises

Doctors 'having to apologise 20 times a day' for politicians' broken promises Dr Mark Porter, the BMA’s council chief, says there are two health services – ‘the one that politicians say they’ll provide and the one they actually do’

Frontline medics are having to apologise to NHS patients 20 times a day because ministers’ promises to fix the health service are so woefully inadequate, the leader of Britain’s doctors has claimed.

In a searing attack on the government’s NHS plans, Dr Mark Porter warned that politicians were “living a lie” because of the gulf between their ambition to turn it into a seven-day service and the reality of too few doctors, hospitals and GP surgeries under pressure and budget cuts. Continue reading... The Guardian

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