Johnson’s NHS promises are phoney and offer absolutely nothing for Devon.
Boris Johnson claims he’s going to build 40 new hospitals – it turns out that it’s really only 6, mainly extensions or refurbishments rather than new hospitals, and absolutely none of them are in the South West.
So the centrepiece of Johnson’s election propaganda campaign does NOTHING to address the problems of the NHS in Devon:
- Nothing to help waiting times for cancer referrals, cancer treatments and elective surgery in our hospitals.
- Nothing to speed up waiting times in A&E.
- Nothing to bring more services to our community hospitals and give them a solid future.
- Nothing to address the chronic shortages of staff – indeed Johnson’s Brexit policy is driving away European doctors and nurses.
We – local people protesting with petitions and placards – managed to stop the CCG closing our community hospitals, as it was threatening to do two years ago after it removed half of the beds across Devon.
Who was on our side? Not the Tories – it was their funding cuts and national plans to sell off hospital buildings which pushed the CCG to bring forward their proposals in the first place.
No – the politicians who really supported local communities were grassroots campaigners like Claire Wright. Indeed her persistent challenge to Hugo Swire in East Devon was what frightened the Tories into dropping their drive to sell off the hospitals.
Seaton & Colyton MATTERS 