‘Patients may be left untreated’
ANGERED Cancer surgeon David Grant BUSY A&E department in January patients waiting for beds at Nottingham’s QMC at one point number of A&E units that reached full capacity this winter STRESS A&E nurse Claire Reay SLAMMED Jeremy Hunt PATIENTS risk being left untreated in the future due to the NHS cash crisis, MPs warn today.
They say medical staff will face having to decide which patients to help.
And they blasted Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for being “too focused on propping up the system and balancing the books” rather than protecting services.
The Public Accounts Committee said: “Despite a rescue fund worth £1.8billion in 2016/17, the position remains perilous ...with budgets unable to keep pace with demand.”
Meanwhile, almost 100 MPs are calling for a cross-party commission to address the NHS and social care crisis.