Claire Young: NHS report must be a “wake-up call”

Thornbury & Yate MP Claire Young has said the Lord Darzi report into the state of the NHS must be a wake-up call for the government to step up and rescue local health and care services.

The report said that the NHS is in a ‘critical condition’ and that since 2015, the NHS has missed every target for A&E, cancer and hospital treatment wait times.

Claire Young MP has said that the new government must urgently invest in rural health services, with accessing care being the biggest challenge facing their constituents.

In the wake of the report, the Liberal Democrats have called on the government to make fixing the NHS and care its top priority and to recruit more GPs, fix crumbling hospitals and enter into cross-party talks on tackling the crisis in social care.

Liberal Democrat MP for Thornbury & Yate Claire Young said:

“This report must be a wake-up call to the new Government about the need to fix our local health and care services – which have been pushed to the brink.

“In recent months I’ve heard from countless people who are suffering due to long waiting lists, or struggling to see an NHS dentist or GP when they need to.

“The Liberal Democrats put tackling the health and care crisis at the heart of our election campaign, and we are now putting it at the heart of our work in Parliament.

“The top priority of this new government must be fixing our NHS so people can finally get the care they deserve.

“This includes fully reforming the NHS dental contract and providing sustainable long-term funding to support our hardworking GPs.”