NHS Reorganisation

My right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor said in response to the Chancellor's spending review:"““We support moves to ring-fence the””" NHS"““budget””.—[Official Report, 20 October 2010; Vol. 516, c. 968.]" People saw Labour's big investment in the NHS bring big improvements—50,000 extra doctors, 98,000 more nurses, deaths from cancer and heart disease at an all-time recorded low, the number of patients waiting more than six months for operations in hospital down from more than 250,000 in 1997 to just 28 in February this year, and more than nine in 10 patients rating their experience of hospital care as good, very good or excellent.