Universal health care horror story of the day

Michele Narey, manager of the Women’s and Children’s division at the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, said: ‘The decision to cancel any patient for any procedure is taken extremely seriously but is sometimes unavoidable because of the need to effectively manage emergency patients requiring beds on a day-to-day basis…

Ms Davis, who works part time as an accident and emergency nurse at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital, called on the Government to plough more money into the NHS before a child died on the waiting list…

‘This is a national problem, there are not enough resources in the NHS and it is about prioritising.’