Labour’s New Deal for the NHS
Labour’s New Deal for the NHS
Labour is today announcing a New Deal for the NHS, with a pledge to take one million people off the waiting list and fix England’s broken A&Es with essential additional funding and tough new targets.
The Tories promised to protect the NHS but our health service has been plunged into crisis with waiting lists up, A&Es overcrowded and hospitals in financial crisis. Meanwhile £4.6bn in Tory cuts have created an emergency in social care.
Where the Tories have failed to deliver, Labour will:
Give the NHS an an extra £37 billion over the course of the next Parliament, including £10 billion of capital funding to make sure that NHS buildings and IT systems are fit for the modern day.
Take one million people off the waiting list by the end of the Parliament, by guaranteeing access to treatment within 18 weeks.
Guarantee patients can be seen in A&E within four hours.
Create a new £500 million winter pressures fund to help ensure patients never have to experience a winter crisis like the one of recent months.
Deliver the Cancer Strategy for England in full by 2020, helping 2.5 million people living with cancer.
Our NHS needs a Labour government that will stand up for the many, not the few.
Scott said: "This is an exciting new deal that would put the rightful value back in to the NHS, reward our hard working staff teams and protect the service for those who need it."
"Labour created the NHS and with us it's safe."
"Under the Conservatives financial pressure has made some situations unbearable on staff, they work incredibly hard in these difficult times. There is a different way."
