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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

NHS crisis ‘a million times worse’ than under Tony Blair, former health secretary warns

The NHS is “drinking in the last-chance saloon”, Labour’s top health adviser and a former health secretary has warned, saying it must stop asking for more money.

Alan Milburn, who was a minister under Tony Blair, said the service needs radical reform rather than more cash, calling for an end to what he said was a “more, more, more culture”.

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