Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, said in response to reports that staff shortages have made the NHS 111 helpline unsafe at weekends:

"This serious warning about the failings of David Cameron's NHS helpline should be a real wakeup call. Patients calling in are not getting the ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to the announcement of the next set of inspections by the Care Quality Commission and Chief Inspector of Hospitals Professor Sir Mike Richards, said: 

“The new chief inspector role is welcome and he is right to pilot his plans with a ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, said in response to reports of a cap on care costs:

“This announcement will not help the thousands of older and disabled people who face a desperate daily struggle to get the support they need right now. 

“Instead, Ministers are offering false ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to reports that NHS Direct has withdrawn from providing NHS 111 in two areas, said: 

“Labour warned the Government that NHS 111 was not fit for purpose, but the Department of Health pressed ahead with the roll-out regardless. 

“Now patients in ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to warnings from ambulance services on the A&E crisis, said:
"In the NHS's 65th anniversary week, warnings do not come any more serious than this. Patients are paying the price for David Cameron’s NHS betrayal.

"There is no more ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, in response to the Care Quality Commission’s review of decisions surrounding the Morecambe Bay Hospitals deleted document, said:
 
"Following our request in Parliament for this to be done yesterday, the care regulator's plans to review its decision to redact the ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour Shadow Health Minister, responding to comments made by the Health Secretary on the A&E crisis today, said:

“It's taken Labour to force this response, but it comes months too late and won't relieve the pressure on our hospitals now.

“Having wasted weeks trying to ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, in response to the Health Secretary’s comments today on staff numbers, said:
 
“At last the Health Secretary has been forced to admit what we and others, including the CQC, have been telling him for months: that too many hospitals are inadequately ...

*  The number of patients waiting in the back of ambulances to be transferred into A&E has doubled over the last three years, leading to ‘ambulance queues’ forming outside English A&Es.
*  Figures based on Freedom of Information requests to English Ambulance Trusts show that the number of patients who waited longer ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to Jeremy Hunt's admission today that more A&E staff are needed, said:

"This is a shocking admission from Jeremy Hunt - his Government has presided over the loss of 4,500 nurses since the election, and now he says that more ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to the Pulse poll showing a drop in support by GPs for the Conservatives, said:
 
“This is a damning indictment of David Cameron’s NHS betrayal. GPs repeatedly warned the Prime Minister over his chaotic NHS re-organisation and decision to force ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to the Government’s comments on nurse training today, said: 

“While we should look at ways of including more hands-on experience in nurse training, the Government should not be allowed to duck the issue that falling nurse numbers are a real ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to reports that the Chair of NHS England has warned of prospect of NHS charges, said:

"It has come to something when the new NHS chief warns the Government's economic failures could leave NHS patients paying for treatment from their ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to the warning letter from the British Medical Association over the new NHS 111 service, said:

“Senior doctors don't make these warnings lightly. We are just four days away from David Cameron's NHS re-organisation coming into force but worrying ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to the Public Accounts Committee's report on NHS efficiency savings, said:
 
“This is the third time this week that the Government has been told by experts that its cuts to the NHS are hitting patients. Ministers cannot go on ignoring ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, responding to the Health Select Committee report on NHS and care expenditure, said:

“This report shows the Health Select Committee no longer believes David Cameron’s spin on real-terms increases for the NHS.

“David Cameron promised to give the NHS year-on-year increases ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, in response to the publication of the Care Quality Commission's 'State of Care' report, said:

"This report raises worrying questions about the quality of care some people are receiving, particularly the most vulnerable in our society.

"The Care Quality Commission is ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, in response to the publication of NHS workforce statistics this morning showing that the number of nurses in the NHS has been cut by 7134 since May 2010, said: 

"Whilst David Cameron wastes billions on back-office restructuring, the frontline of the NHS ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to reports that NHS Direct may make more than half its staff redundant, said:
 
"Not only are Ministers axing the jobs of 6000 hospital and community nurses but they’ve now put hundreds of jobs at the vital NHS Direct service ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to today's report from the Willis Commission on Nursing Education, said:

“Today's report is right to highlight the effect nursing jobs losses in the NHS is having on standards of patient care.

“Healthcare assistants are being badly put upon ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, in response to the publication of NHS workforce statistics this morning showing that the number of nurses in the NHS has been cut by 6,191 since May 2010, said:

“Despite his election promises David Cameron has cut the NHS budget two ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to today's report from Age UK and the Royal College of Surgeons on treatment rationing and age discrimination in the NHS, said:

"Older patients in the NHS are paying the price of the financial crisis this Government is inflicting on ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, in response to new General Medical Council figures showing a 23 per cent increase in complaints about doctors, said:

"The Government cannot brush this aside - patients are clearly being hit by their mismanagement of the NHS. Ministers lost a grip on NHS ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, in response to Health Minister Anna Soubry's admission that the Government "screwed up" its health reforms, said:
 
"This Tory-led Government is completely out of touch if they think the only problem with their NHS plans is one of presentation. The Government ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, in response to figures obtained by the Health Service Journal showing 74% of redundancies from Government NHS re-organisation were women, said:

"As the Government’s re-organisation inflicts chaos on the NHS, its women employees are being hit hardest. Thousands of NHS jobs ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, has written to Andrew Lansley asking him to investigate and root out similar examples across the NHS of reports today that nursing staff at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust have been required to clean and tidy in acute and general admission wards, despite ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, in response to reports that one in four hospital trusts have increased car parking charges for patients and visitors, said:

"These are stealth taxes on people already at a low ebb; families and patients, at what is already a difficult time in ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, speaking after the release of new A&E waiting time figures this afternoon, said:

“Today for the tenth week running, hospitals have failed to meet the Government's own lowered A&E target. This is yet more evidence of how patients are paying the ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Minister, said in response to this afternoon’s hospital funding announcement:
 
"The Government’s damaging and unnecessary NHS reorganisation is wasting over £3 bn and causing Ministers to lose their grip on the health service. Patients are beginning to pay the price of ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, speaking after the release of new A&E waiting times and ambulance figures this afternoon, said:

"David Cameron’s Health Bill has come under scathing attack today from frontline NHS staff. Now we have yet more evidence of how the chaos the Government ...

Jamie Reed MP, Labour's Shadow Health Minister, responding to David Cameron's visit to a Durham hospital said:

"There's undoubtedly an important debate to be had about alcohol and when the Government publishes its long-awaited strategy we'll play our part.

"But today's warm words from the ...