HEALTH workers’ leaders slammed government NHS cuts yesterday after Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge was found to be “inadequate” and placed in special measures.

As reported in yesterday’s Morning Star, Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors reported staff shortages, faulty equipment, cancelled operations, closed wards, and even dangerously high levels of a toxic gas used as a pain-killer.

Pregnant women were found to be put at risk by the issues, with the closure of the hospital’s maternity unit and a shortage of midwives forcing patients to be diverted elsewhere several times.