More cuts in NHS services on the way.

When you consider that Labour are supposed to be the party of the NHS, it makes you wonder as to their thinking when you look at the current crop of headlines.

For example, in today's Times it has been revealed that patients are being denied basic operations, including treatments for varicose veins, wisdom teeth and bad backs, as NHS trusts try and balance the books.

In addition, the Telegraph has reported that a severe shortage of nurses and GPs in the next few years is predicted in a leaked Government report. The document, which was written by senior civil servants in the Department of Health, also discloses that there will be an estimated 37,000 job losses this year as trusts in deficit struggle to balance their books.

So why is the government still so insistent that trusts have to balance the books, with no help.

Haven't they realised that it was down to their meddling, and implementation of league tables, targets, and bureaucracy, that has left the trusts with such large deficits.

As I have said many times if there weren't any league tables or targets, think of the money you could save on administrators and managers, then there would be no need to cut nursing jobs.

Is it any wonder that senior ministers are having to join protests against the NHS cuts? even though they are the ones that caused them.