Vast budget cuts for NHS are a crucial issue in the run-up to the May 7 UK general election with Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party facing criticism over NHS performance.
“The NHS as we know it cannot survive five more years of the Tories,” Labour’s Shadow Health Minister Liz Kendall said as quoted in the party's statement.
According to the Labours, if the Tories win the forthcoming elections, NHS services will continue to drastically decline.
Kendall added that if the current trend continues, the United Kingdom will see “millions more facing long waits in A&E, millions more facing long waits to see a GP and ambulance response times for the most serious call-outs rising to an average of over nine minutes.”
On Tuesday, a Labour party spokesperson told Sputnik that British hospitals have been suffering greatly under the Tory-led government, which wasted what he described as billions of pounds on a reorganization that did not bring tangible results.
In March, the King's Fund, an independent charity organization working to improve health care in England, described NHS as "working close to the limits" in most areas after budgets were cut over the past year. The charity's assessment of NHS performance from 2010 to 2015 said waiting times were at the highest levels in years, while an unprecedented number of hospitals reported deficits.
