PM denies patients will miss out on pain relief treatmentpublished at 13:43 Greenwich Mean Time 10 January 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May says it's "plain wrong" to suggest that government funding cuts mean some patients in Hull might no longer receive pain infusion treatment.
During Prime Minister's Questions, the Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle, Emma Hardy, called on Theresa May to intervene.
Quote MessageI've been contacted by 11 constituents who are frightened and many of them suicidal because they've been told by either Hull or the East Riding CCG that their desperately needed pain infusion treatment will be stopped. This is the cruel reality of the NHS having to ration treatment due to funding cuts"
Emma Hardy, Member of Parliament
Mrs May denied the health service is having to make do with less:
Quote MessageWe are putting extra money into the National Health Service. We are not cutting funding for the National Health Service. CCGs will be taking individual decisions about how they apportion their funding, but to stand up here and suggest we are cutting funding to the National Health Service is plain wrong"
Theresa May, Prime Minister