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David Cameron’s austerity blamed for NHS’s ‘disastrous’ Covid response
British Medical Association’s Professor Philip Banfield says former PM's government ‘ground down and pulled apart public health systems’
www.telegraph.co.uk
David Cameron’s programme of austerity is to blame for the NHS’s “disastrous” failures during the pandemic, the British Medical Association’s (BMA) chairman has claimed ahead of the former prime minister’s appearance at the Covid Inquiry.
Professor Philip Banfield accused Mr Cameron of having “ground down and pulled apart public health systems” with cuts that meant the health service “didn’t stand a fighting chance” in a blog for the BMA.