The capital’s mayor has few powers over NHS and other health services but it is still an issue worth shouting approximately London mayors have only very limited control over health services in London,but they can make a lot of noise approximately them whether they want. Labour candidate Sadiq Khan turned up the campaign volume on Tuesday with a promise to be “the first mayor to supply real leadership for London’s NHS” and a poke in his main rival Zac Goldsmith’s eye. “He has said nothing approximately the future of London’s NHS,” Khan observed of the Conservative, or “because he knows that Londoners simply conclude not trust him or his party with it.” Khan pointed out that Goldsmith reportedly pledged during the 2010 general election campaign to “trigger a by election and allow people to penalise my party, whether Kingston hospital in his Richmond Park and North Kingston constituency had any of its services cut. But in February 2011, with the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in government, and Goldsmith accepted the projected loss of almost 500 staff because “hospitals around the country are having to find savings and ours is no different.” Kingstons was expecting a 25% reduction in its budget over the ensuing five years. “Goldsmith will fracture every promise he makes on the NHS,” asserted Khan.
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Source: theguardian.com