Opposition Day — NHS — 15 Oct 2014 at 18:50

The majority of MPs voted against acting to reverse A&E, cancer and referral waiting times; against publishing evidence on the costs of reorganising the NHS; and against spending an extra £2.5 billion on building the NHS workforce of the future.

The motion rejected by the majority of MPs in this vote was:

• That this House
• notes comments from leading experts that the NHS and social care services are at breaking point;
• believes that this is linked to the Government’s decision to reorganise the NHS;
• further notes that one senior Cabinet minister has said that reorganising the NHS was the Government’s biggest mistake;
• further believes that the NHS reorganisation has wasted money which could have been spent on frontline care;
• further believes that access to NHS services is now deteriorating and that staff numbers are not keeping pace with demand;
• notes the report by the Nuffield Trust, entitled Cause for Concern: Quality Watch annual statement 2014, published in October 2014, which found that it is now becoming harder to access care in many settings, with some people facing extreme waits;
• calls on the Government to act swiftly to reverse the deterioration in accident and emergency, cancer and referral to treatment waiting times;
• further calls on the Government to publish its independent evidence on the costs of reorganising the NHS; and
• further calls on the Government to match the Labour Party’s plans to raise an extra £2.5 billion to invest in building the NHS workforce of the future.

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