NHS access ‘does not come with licence to abuse staff’, says Wes Streeting

On the subject of potentially charging patients for NHS care, Mr Streeting said: “The failure of public services to meet the needs of the people is one of the fertilisers of populism we see across liberal democracies, and as the NHS has been driven to the worst crisis in its history by the Conservatives, the vultures on the right have begun to circle.