Patient care is suffering yet all the Tories offer is further cuts and outsourcing to private companies like Virgin - Ashworth

[labourpress]

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, commenting on the news that a £700m contract to provide community health and care in Bath and North East Somerset over the next seven years has been approved for Virgin Care, said:

“Under the Tories, hospitals are facing financial crisis while patient care suffers yet all the Tories offer is further cuts and outsourcing to private companies like Virgin.

“The Tory mishandling of the NHS is nothing short of a disgrace: people are waiting longer, A&Es are in crisis, social care is being squeezed and staff morale is plunging.

“One thing is clear in all of this: if we are to save the NHS we need to kick out the Tories and elect a Labour government.”

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