'The damage that you're doing to families like myself is terrible'. A mother of a child who has cystic fibrosis tells Health Secretary Steve Barclay that it's 'not fair' to blame NHS issues on COVID, adding that there were challenges before the pandemic.
1:07A mother has challenged health secretary Steve Barclay during a hospital visit, telling him that NHS staff are being"worked to the bone".
"That's what is really upsetting actually because we have a daughter with a life-limiting, life-shortening condition," she told him. "The staff are amazing, the NHS staff are incredible, and they are particularly even more incredible because they are working under such rough conditions."
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