A video has slammed the Health Secretary for using his speech ‘to demonise NHS doctors to a clapping audience.’
Peter Stefanovic has torn into Steve Barclay and the BMA has also held the Health Secretary to account.
Responding to the Health Minister, Steve Barclay’s speech in the morning session of the annual Conservative Party conference BMA council chair, Professor Phil Banfield, said:
“Steve Barclay’s speech reflected a Government with nothing to say about the major challenges facing the NHS, and nothing new to offer to those who rely on our health service or who work in it. How have we got to a stage where the leader of our health service gives an address at his own Party’s conference, and completely ignores the 7.6m patients currently waiting for treatment?
“He claimed to be on the side of patients but failed to even acknowledge those waiting in pain and distress. While doctors are supportive of patient choice and the enhanced and safe use of technology, we are acutely aware that right now our patients desperately want to be seen in good time and close to home. Mr Barclay claims to be focussed on outcomes all while refusing to speak with those who deliver care.”
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Also, the Health Secretary announced that transgender women are to be banned from female NHS wards, as he insisted that the Tories “know what a woman is”.
Barclay promised to restore “common sense” to the NHS and recognise “the importance of biological sex in healthcare”.
Britain’s first openly transgender MP, Conservative Jamie Wallis, lashed out at the comments urging the Barclay to solve problems “which actually exist”.
Wallis said there was “no evidence of even a single complaint about the presence of trans women in particular spaces,”
Then he stated: “whilst Mr Barclay is solving a problem, with our continued support and encouragement I hope to see him solve ones which actually exist”.
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Peter Stefanovic shared his new video and wrote: “SHOCKING & SHAMELESS from Health Secretary @SteveBarclay who just used his conference speech to demonize NHS doctors to a clapping audience! Get the REAL FACTS here & if like me you stand with our NHS doctors RT it widely.”
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