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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Caitlin Doherty

Plans to reform NHS have ‘chilling echoes’ of HS2 failures, MPs warn

Plans to reform the NHS have “chilling echoes” of the failures around HS2, MPs have said as they warn Labour is at “serious risk” of not meeting its pledge to cut waiting lists.

The public accounts committee (PAC) warned that “poor practices” seen in the troubled project to build the high-speed rail link were being replicated in the health service and could lead to “wasted effort” to overhaul the NHS.

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