Labour reveal new health statistics showing operations cancelled

Title

Labour reveal new health statistics showing operations cancelled

Genre

Interview

TX Date

10 Oct 1991

Year of production

1991

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Duration

00:02:19

Description

Des Fahy interviews shadow Health Secretary, Harriet Harman, on new NHS statistics which the Labour Party says show almost 300,000 hospital operations were cancelled in 1990. Harman claims the cancellations are due to calls to save money and put profits before patients. Comes on the day Health Secretary William Waldegrave is to address the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. Broadcast on LBC FM Breakfast show.

Contributors

Harriet Harman; Des Fahy

Keywords

Government; Labour Party; Health services; Conservative Party; NHS; Party politics; Health statistics

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