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Public Services: Update

Proceeding contribution from Lord Balfe (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 29 April 2020. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Public Services: Update.

Our National Health Service may be wonderful, but it has a very sclerotic decision-making process, rather like the former Soviet Union. I live in Cambridge, where our local hospital has almost 400 empty beds. Cancer radiotherapy and cancer operations have stopped. The cardiology department has almost stopped and there are no face-to-face appointments available. When the hospital is questioned, it says that it is waiting for guidance; when the Minister is questioned, we are told that it is up to the hospitals. Will someone try to shake this up, because although we have to combat Covid-19 we must also remember that many very ill people in the community are not being looked after?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
803 c265 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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