The warnings that the Coalition Government’s NHS reforms would be bad for patients are sadly beginning to come to fruition. We have seen nursing job cuts, an A&E crisis, and hospital waiting times beginning to rise. There are terrible stories in the press of ambulances being delayed and police cars being used to transport people to hospital. Last week I raised my concerns about the leaked document which outlined Government proposals to close three quarters of Britain’s specialist brain cancer centres, including seven in the North of England. Continue reading →