NHS report is “wake-up call” to rescue health and care services in Liverpool

Liverpool Lib Dems Lib Dems: NHS report is “wake-up call” to rescue health and care services in Liverpool

Liverpool Lib Dems have said the Lord Darzi report into the state of the NHS must be a wake-up call for the government to rescue health and services in Liverpool.

The report said that the NHS is in a ‘critical condition’ and that since 2015, the NHS has missed every target for A&E, cancer and hospital treatment wait times.

Liverpool Lib Dems said that the new government must urgently invest in Liverpool's local health services with accessing care being the biggest challenge facing the area.

In the wake of the report, the Liberal Democrats have called on the government to make fixing the NHS and care its top priority and to recruit more GPs, fix crumbling hospitals and enter into cross-party talks on tackling the crisis in social care.

Deputy Leader of the Liverpool Liberal Democrats and Shadow Cabinet Member for City Health, Equality and Adult Social Care Services Cllr Liz Makinson said:

“This report must act as a wake-up call to fix our local health and care services on the brink.

“In recent weeks and months we have heard from countless people who are suffering from endless waiting lists, or struggling to see an NHS dentist or GP when they need to.

”The top priority of this new government must be fixing our NHS so people can finally get the care they deserve. The report into the state of public health in our city earlier this year laid stark the outcome of poor healthcare in our city. It should be a reality that everyone in our city has access to hospital and ambulance services when they need them in a city that has clean air. We want an NHS in Liverpool that helps people live long, healthy and happy lives.”