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NHS Reorganisation

Proceeding contribution from Jim Cunningham (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 12 December 2018. It occurred during Debate on NHS Reorganisation.

I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing the debate. He touches on the reorganisation way back in 2012. Clinical commissioning groups were created, but they are not accountable to the public—we have problems trying to find out what their budgets are and so forth. We have the same problem with NHS England, which is another

very difficult organisation to deal with. As a result of all this reorganisation, we have organisations that are not really accountable to the public, and the public do not get their voices heard.

My hon. Friend touched on staff salaries. If we worked it out, we would probably find that they have had an 8% real-terms cut in wages over the past seven or eight years, on top of which they have to pay car parking charges for the privilege of serving the public. Does he agree that that cannot be right?

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

651 cc126-7WH 

Session

2017-19

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall
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