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20% increase in cancelled urgent operations show patients are paying the price for the Government's mismanagement of the NHS - Burnham
27 January 2012
Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in response to a 20% increase in the number of cancelled urgent operations, said:
"Patients are beginning to pay the price for the Government's mismanagement of the NHS. It is unacceptable that more people are waiting more than four hours in A&E, more people are waiting more than 18 weeks for an operation and more urgent operations are being cancelled.
"Every day more evidence comes to light showing that Ministers have lost Labour's firm grip on the NHS. The Government has thrown the health service into turmoil with its confused policies and chaotic management.
"The time has come for the Government to halt its destabilising NHS reorganisation and let it focus on what matters: maintaining standards of patient care."
