Articles and Speeches

Impatient for Patients
03-Aug-04, Windsor Observer.

"Many people are sick to death of waiting NHS improvements - literally.

Grit your teeth as this will be a rant of the rational kind.

Waiting for NHS improvements under this Government is life-threatening, unlike waiting for a bus.

Putting aside emotion, let’s look at the record after 7-years of Labour:

• 1 million people on waiting lists

• 5,000 die from MRSA infections given to them by the NHS

• Three times more bureaucrats were hired than doctors. Their analysis? There aren’t enough doctors!

• They signed the EU Working Time directive. Junior doctors cannot work the hours to keep up, even if they want to

This is a farce worthy of a ‘Carry On’ comedy, if it weren’t so serious. The NHS is killing the poor, because the rich can go elsewhere.

I praise the NHS nurses, doctors and consultants I’ve spoken with; They’re equally frustrated.

The Conservative policy is not perfect, but will deliver more than the current failure.

If patients can choose where they’re treated – irrespective of income – then good hospitals will expand and bad hospitals will either improve or close.

If hospitals in Windsor, and throughout the country, are freed from the 188 silly bureaucratic targets, then they will do what works.

I am impatient for patients."