Rebecca Blake Labour's Parliamentary Spokesperson for Redditch met with Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary the day of his conference speech, where he laid out Labour's policies for the NHS.
"Andy restated today that he is open to reorganisation that is based on clinical care. We know in Redditch it is about cost cutting which I believe will put people's lives in danger.
I raised the threat of closure, loss of A&E & maternity at the Alex Hospital with Andy Burnham.
Andy agreed with me, given the challenges that face the NHS this was no time for the government to be spending £3.4 billion on a top down reorganisation. Andy had forced a debate in the commons, including requesting savings that had been made in the NHS to be reinvested in the NHS and the £1.4 billion underspend return from the Treasury to the department of health, but the Tories voted against. This could have been extra money for patients at the Alex.
Andy discussed his concerns that the government were breaking up the NHS to privatise services, something a Labour Government would not do".
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