{"id":11064,"date":"2017-01-12T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=11064"},"modified":"2017-01-12T17:02:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T17:02:48","slug":"get-a-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=11064","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Get a grip\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Prime Minister shrugged off the mounting NHS crisis yesterday (January 11) as a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bsmall number\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 of incidents, even as 20 hospitals across England declared that they could no longer guarantee patient safety because of overcrowding.<\/p>\n

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Theresa May\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insistence that the NHS<\/a> was not in meltdown came as the NHS England chief, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Nurses all said that the system is being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

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Separately, May also received an open letter<\/a> from 75 leading NHS organisations and voices calling for cross party \u00e2\u20ac\u015bfundamental action\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 to tackle severely depleted health and care budgets.<\/p>\n

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Responding to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s question about the substandard hospital treatment of a toddler at PMQs yesterday, May said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI accept there have been a small number of incidents where unacceptable practises have taken place. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want these things to happen. But what matters is how you then deal with them.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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May also described the Red Cross\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 statement<\/a> that the NHS was facing a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bhumanitarian crisis\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 as \u00e2\u20ac\u015birresponsible and overblown\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and rubbished the opposition\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call for more funding – despite Britain not spending as much on its health services as many other developed nations.<\/p>\n

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She said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe only way that we can ensure that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got enough funding for the NHS is strong economy.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Replying to May\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s answers, Corbyn mocked the prime minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent \u00e2\u20ac\u015bshared society\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 initiative.<\/p>\n

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He said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWell, we certainly got that. More people sharing hospital corridors on trolleys, more people sharing waiting areas at A&E departments. More people sharing in anxiety generated by this government.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0098In denial\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOur NHS, Mr Speaker, is in crisis, but the Prime Minister is in denial.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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As evidence of the increasing pressures on the NHS continued to roll in yesterday – with new NHS numbers<\/a> showing that around 2.1m people waited in A&E for more than 4 hours in 2015\/16 compared to 1.6m the year before – a YouGov poll<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0released today (January 12) shows that the majority of the public are now more likely to support a tax increase to fund the NHS.<\/p>\n

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The poll found that 42 per cent of people would support a boost in health care funding through a penny on the basic rate of income tax, while 37 per cent would oppose it. In 2014, the number of people opposed to such as measure stood at 57 per cent, with 34 per cent supporting it.<\/p>\n

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However Unite national officer for health, Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe, said the government could afford to properly finance the NHS without raising income tax if big business and the super-rich were made to pay their fair share<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have one of the biggest economies in the world. If you look at the amount of tax big businesses and the wealthy are avoiding, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more than enough to pay for extra NHS funding,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBut the Tories are not interested in funding in the NHS, because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re set on the \u00e2\u20ac\u015bslash, trash and privatise\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 agenda.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFirst they slash funding and then the services get trashed as not being good enough, which is what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening now. As a response to this, there are then attempts to privatise services in the guise of improving the system.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Jarrett-Thorpe added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite stands for a progressive system taxation and a fully funded and functioning NHS. The government needs to get a grip and avert this crisis, before it starts costing people their lives.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prime Minister shrugged off the mounting NHS crisis yesterday (January 11) as a \u00e2\u20ac\u015bsmall number\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 of incidents, even as 20 hospitals across England declared that they could no longer guarantee patient safety because of overcrowding.   Theresa May\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insistence that the NHS was not in meltdown came as the NHS England chief, the British […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[29,44],"wps_subtitle":"Unite warns gov\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to sort NHS crisis before too late ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}