Labour says 17,000 NHS England beds have been cut since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 This is true - bed numbers have actually been falling since the 1980s But the head of NHS England says bed closures must be reversed to meet growing demandhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50727790 …
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Indeed. During the Thatcher era my Mum worked for the NHS. The government at the time considered "contingency" capacity as a waste of resources so got rid of it. And so began the decline.
