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80-MILE NHS TRIP: LABOUR WANTS INQUIRY
Labour's health spokesman Henry McLeish
has called for an inquiry into the case
of badly burnt man who was sent on an
80-mile trip for hospital treatment.
Mr McLeish said it was an "absolute
scandal" and blamed government reforms
of the NHS for the situation.
The MP demanded an immediate inquiry
by the district health authority.
And he urged the Government to listen
to its critics and "start to put
patients before the current
fragmentation of the health service".
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