NHS: Finances and Services

Baroness Tonge Excerpts

Tuesday 27th January 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Jolly]

Indeed it should be planned for. There are now a million more people over 65 than there were at the beginning of this Parliament, but at the beginning of this Parliament there were no plans to cope with that onward growth.

[Baroness Tonge (Ind LD)]

My Lords, does the Minister agree with me that chaos is reigning in the health service at the moment? We really must stop this piecemeal approach of throwing bits of money at it and putting on patches where it is failing, and have a proper all-party conference to discuss the future of the health service and how we are going to fund it. That is the only thing that the general public would respect.