"The government has let the NHS fall apart": Doctor's letter about A&E crisis goes viral

A doctor’s impassioned post about the A&E crisis, in which he accuses the government of letting the NHS fail, has gone viral.

Dr Rob Galloway, an A&E consultant, “who still loves his job but is concerned for his future patients”, said his is faced by a “wall of silence” from politicians and the press.

He wrote: “I just want to check that I and all my colleagues who work in A&E, up and down the country, are not living in a parallel universe?

“You do realise don’t you that this winter 1000s and 1000s of our patients can not get beds when they need them after they have been seen in A&E.

“They are lying in corridors of A&Es, despite the fact that 1000s and 1000s of elective operations are being cancelled to free up beds. Yet there is silence from our politicans and the majority of the press.”

The post has 20,000 likes, 2,600 comments and more than 57,000 shares.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been forced to deny that the NHS is facing a humanitarian crisis.

The Red Cross issued a warning after two patients died last week in the same A&E department after awaiting treatment on trolleys, with one waiting for 35 hours.

In his post, Dr Galloway wrote: “The government have woefully let the NHS fall apart. Funding has been cut per patient to both GPs, hospitals and crucially social services. But we are faced with a wall of silence. Why?”

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“Theresa May’s only comment on Health since she has become the Prime Minister is that Hunt is doing a good job. (Good only in the sense if you want to see it destroyed and thus privatised, otherwise he is far from good),” he said.

He added: “Up and down the country the NHS has amazing staff, who are doing our best in such difficult circumstances. We just need to be given a chance to succeed.”

“And to anyone reading this – the government is not going to change for years and the only thing which we can do to make them listen is if people start to fight back against what is happening.

“Please dont accept the current situation. Join campaign groups, share posts like this (with a public profile) and tweets and question what you are told when politicians and the press tell us the downfall of the NHS is inevitable. It is not. Unless we let it be.”

Jeremy Hunt said: “I don’t want to pretend that we haven’t, at this most difficult time of year for the NHS, had some very serious problems in some hospitals. But I think we need to listen to independent people,” arguing that hospitals were coping better than last year.