Sunday Mirror

PM IN BID TO SAVE PROBLEM GAMBLERS Plan part of £20.5bn health ‘boost’

NHS cash can’t make up for decade of cuts

- Shadow Health Secretary

THE Tories have been running down the NHS for nearly nine years.

Under Labour, a well-funded NHS met all its waiting list and A&E targets.

Under the Tories, 4.3 million languish on waiting lists. Hundreds of thousands are stuck for hours in A&E.

Another 27,000 are being forced to wait more than 62 days for their launch it today on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show.

She said: “The launch of the NHS Long Term Plan marks an historic step to secure its future.” But last night her party was urged to first deal

with staff shortages. life-saving cancer treatment. That is a shameful disgrace.

The Tories slashed training support, abolished bursaries and imposed crippling pay freezes. Today that means chronic staff shortages. Hospitals are in AN escape room blaze that killed five girls of 15 was sparked by a gas leak in a heating system, firefighte­rs say.

The victims in Koszalin, Poland, are thought to have died of carbon monoxide asphyxiati­on on Friday. The escape room game, popular in the UK, involves getting out of a locked site by solving puzzles. Dame Donna Kinnair, of the Royal College of Nursing, said: “The NHS is already short of more than 40,000 nurses and the figure is rising. The Government must urgently address this to make the plan a success.” debt, crumbling and increasing­ly reliant on outdated equipment. Social care services have been savaged with cuts.

The truth is, year after year Tory ministers have refused to give our NHS the cash that doctors say it needs.

So whatever Theresa May promises, you simply can’t believe a word these Tories say when it comes to the NHS.

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 ??  ?? TRAGEDY Fire crews at scene in Koszalin, Poland
TRAGEDY Fire crews at scene in Koszalin, Poland
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PROMISES: Theresa May
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