Devon MPs Liberal Democrat Steve Darling (Torbay), Caroline Voaden (South Devon) and Martin Wrigley (Newton Abbot) have responded to the Government’s new hospitals league table, warning that they reveal a stark postcode lottery in NHS care.
There have been 14,462 A&E attendance in Torbay and South Devon through June and July NHS figures reveal, up from 13,228 a decade ago, with Torbay’s MP warning that local health services have faced a summer crisis.
The Lib Dem MP for Torbay says they are “furious” and has accused Royal Mail of “betraying their customers” after the company confirmed they had returned a profit for the first time in three years, despite announcing that they are cutting key services.
All six of Devon’s Liberal Democrat MPs have launched an attack on the Government after uncovering £256 million worth of cuts to NHS services across the county
Steve Darling, Liberal Democrat MP for Torbay, has called for a rail fare freeze as ticket prices look set to increase again next year.
Steve Darling, the Liberal Democrat MP for Torbay, has said that the findings of a Liberal Democrat poll is a “damning indictment” on the state of British seas, and that they are “saddened but not surprised” by the results of the research.
