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NHS: We need to "back it, build it, and improve it for everyone".
Anne Main MP: "We all know how the NHS that we all love and rely on is meant to be but, locally we are seeing nothing but a “cuts driven” agenda.
It’s an expensive area in which to deliver services but we are disadvantaged financially by the complex Government funding formula. St Albans gets £200 a year health budget less per person than the national average but yet must still deliver the hundreds of centrally imposed targets.
Indeed, the House of Commons politically independent Select Committee have claimed that unfair funding, poor local management and the Government to blame for crisis in the NHS in a recent report.
We have suffered constant, costly, re-organisation of our services. We supported the 3year long consultation “Investing in Your Health”, but that has now been binned along with the proposed 700 bed “Super Hospital.
I have long believed in an independent NHS, where we get politicians out of the day to day running of the health service also ensuring that the government move away from the idea that top-down targets and centralisation are the best way forward for the NHS.
Below you can see how I am continuing to highlight our problems – locally, nationally and in Parliament."
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