MP resigns from Tory party over NHS “stretched close to breaking point”

Dan Poulter, a consultant psychiatrist and former health minister, has resigned from the Conservative Party over the state of the NHS and accused the government of putting political ideology before pragmatism over doctors’ pay. In a shock resignation on 28 April the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich for 14 years said he would sit as a Labour MP until the general election and then would stand down.Poulter said he had made his decision after spending more than 20 night shifts over the past year working as a mental health doctor in a busy accident and emergency (A&E) department. He told BBC Television’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, “I found it increasingly difficult to look my NHS colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience.”1In an article for the Observer newspaper Poulter said, “Throughout the small hours, my clinical…
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