{"id":2506,"date":"2022-08-26T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:34:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:34:34","slug":"people-are-dying-health-secretary-lambasted-by-angry-woman-due-to-ambulance-crisis-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/people-are-dying-health-secretary-lambasted-by-angry-woman-due-to-ambulance-crisis-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"People are DYING! Health Secretary LAMBASTED By Angry Woman Due to Ambulance Crisis – ON AIR!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An irate woman interrupted a live broadcast<\/a> with Health Secretary Steve Barclay, accusing him of doing “nothing” to reduce ambulance wait times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She demanded to know why the government had done “nothing” about long waits for patients to get help despite the Conservatives being in power for twelve years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cabinet minister was speaking to reporters outside Moorfields Eye Hospital in Old Street, central London when a woman interrupted him to say that ‘people have died’ while waiting for emergency services today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes after the Care Quality Commission (CQC) revealed that patients at South Central Ambulance Service were subjected to ‘frequent and prolonged’ ambulance waits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several cases were highlighted in yesterday’s report, including one of an elderly patient who waited 14 hours on the floor for help after falling. In another instance, a lengthy delay contributed to the death of a patient who had fallen and became trapped beneath their bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report’s authors stated that ‘delays in reaching people who had requested emergency assistance were frequent and prolonged.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surgeons at Moorfields Eye Hospital gave Mr Barclay a tour of an operating theatre before he spoke to the press on the street outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, during one of his interviews, he was confronted by a member of the public who asked, ‘Are you going to do anything about the ambulances waiting, and the people dying out?’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Barclay replied: \u2018Of course we are,\u2019 but the woman continued: \u2018Don\u2019t you think 12 years is long enough?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Twelve years \u2013 you\u2019ve done bugger all about it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018People have died, and all you\u2019ve done is nothing.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She marched away from Mr Barclay after delivering the venomous words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heated exchange drew a lot of attention, with some dubbing the woman an “icon” for taking on the minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Barclay later told the media that cutting ambulance wait times is an “absolute priority” for the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018So there\u2019s a range of issues within how we deliver on ambulances, but it\u2019s an absolute priority both for the Government and for NHS England.\u2019<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An irate woman interrupted a live broadcast with Health Secretary Steve Barclay, accusing him of doing “nothing” to reduce ambulance wait times. She demanded to know why the government had … <\/p>\n

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