NHS Winter Crisis

Debate between Jonathan Ashworth and Paula Sherriff

Wednesday 10th January 2018 Commons Chamber

[Jonathan Ashworth]

I will give way to the local MP, and I will then try to make some progress.

[Paula Sherriff]

I am sure my hon. Friend will join me in thanking the staff for their gargantuan efforts this winter and over the festive period. Just this week, I spoke to a nurse at the very same hospital, who advised me that staff had had to clear out the cleaning cupboard to put in a bed for a patient to receive an infusion. Does he share my horror at that? What on earth is our NHS coming to under this Government?

[Jonathan Ashworth]

Beds in broom cupboards—the Tory NHS: isn’t it a disgrace?