Emma today challenged the government on their misleading claims about decreasing productivity levels in the NHS.

 

Emma said in Parliament today: 

 

“I am proud of Labour’s record in government on the NHS.  When we left office, patient satisfaction in the NHS was extremely high. A report recently published in the Lancet stated that productivity levels in the NHS did not decline during the period 2000-2009 and called Tory claims that it had a myth.”

 

Speaking after the debate, Emma said:

 

“The government has persistently attempted to talk down the achievements of the NHS in order to justify its own ideological changes to the service. Government Ministers have repeatedly claimed that productivity dropped between 2002-2009 yet today the Health Secretary refused to give a response to my question.”

 

Today, Emma voted in favour of the Labour Party’s call for the government to publish the secret Risk Register for their changes to the NHS.

 

She said:

 

“The public deserve to know the risks associated with the government’s reckless changes to the NHS.”

 

February 2012