Peter Hoskin

Riddled with vermin

There are few blunter indictments of this Government’s mismanagement of the health service than the news that numerous hospitals are ‘infested with vermin’.

Over £90 billion of public money has been splashed on the health service in the past year alone – in real terms, that’s double what was spent on it in 1999. For all that so-called investment, you’d think we’d get cleanliness and hygiene in our hospitals. Instead, we’ve had rats, maggots and superbugs.

The NHS is 60 this year. As a birthday present, Labour’s dragged it through the muck.

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