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Mother challenges health secretary during hospital visit

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Mother challenges health secretary during hospital visit

Mother challenges health secretary during hospital visit

A mother, whose three-year-old daughter Lucy has cystic fibrosis challenges Steve Barclay during a visit to King’s College Hospital in south London, complaining that staff are being “worked to the bone”.

Sarah Pinnington-Auld also tells the health secretary that her daughter was pushed off the “absolutely horrific” waiting list because "the obscene number of people who came through and the lack of resources".

Report by Blairm.

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