Carlisle's MP has urged the Health Secretary to assure the public that the new Labour government will restore people's trust in the NHS.
Julie Minns shared the stories of three people who had visited her surgery during a debate in the House of Commons on Lord Darzi's investigation into the NHS.
She told Heath Secretary Wes Streeting that these people "were at the end of their tether about the care that their loved ones had received, or not received," at the Cumberland Infirmary.
One woman with physical disabilities has no trust in the hospital because "her recent care involved her being fed food that she was known to be allergic to."
The parents of a young woman who has epilepsy, a physical disability, and profound anxiety shared with Ms Minns how a failure to put in a place a care plan for their daughter has led to her self-harming.
And, an elderly woman told her that her husband was discharged from hospital without her consent and has been placed in a care home 20 miles away meaning she cannot visit him.
She asked Mr Streeting whether he would "assure those people that this Government will not only fix our NHS, but restore their broken trust in it?"
Mr Streeting responded: "I look forward to working with her to improve health services there [Carlisle] and across the north-west, especially in the rural and coastal communities that rely on the hospital in Carlisle, as well as on more local neighbourhood services."
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