Kevin Hollinrake has defended the government’s investment in the NHS despite figures which suggest 250 people are dying needlessly each week due to long wait times in hospital Accident and Emergency departments. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well we're seeing a huge rise in demand, so you're seeing about an 8% increase of
00:04 attendances at A&E and an 8% increase in admissions. This is putting big pressure
00:09 on the system which is why we're putting record amounts of funding into the system.
00:13 A real terms increase of about 13% into healthcare versus five years ago.
00:18 110,000 more nurses and doctors working in our NHS every day and 5,000 more
00:23 critical care beds all trying to provide that capacity but there's no doubt
00:28 whether you look in England where we run the health service or Wales where
00:32 Labour runs it or Scotland where the SNP run it, all those services under pressure
00:37 and all these kind of waiting times are there, they are improving but no doubt
00:42 the demand side pressures we have are very significant that's why we're
00:46 putting the extra resources in there so they can cope with it.