The NHS is broken not beaten.
Labour promised change, and we’ve made a good start providing the two million extra appointments we pledged seven months early.
But there is a lot more to do, so through our Plan for Change we are:
- Delivering faster NHS treatment through our reforms to elective care, to cut NHS waiting times from 18 months to 18 weeks;
- Investing nearly £26 billion from the Budget to support delivery of 40,000 extra appointments each week and invest in new surgical hubs, state-of-the-art scanners and radiotherapy machines;
- Developing a ten-year plan, working with staff and patients to consider how to make the three big shifts our NHS needs: from analogue to digital, from hospital to community, and from sickness to prevention;
- Delivering a long-term plan for reforming adult social care through an independent, cross-party commission, laying the foundations for a system rooted in fairness and equality;
- Bringing back the family doctor through a new deal for GPs, ending the 8am scramble and cutting red tape so that doctors can spend more time with their patients.
- We’ve already cut waiting lists down by 190,000 since July and are recruiting 1,000 more GPs this year.
Stephen Morgan has made caring for our local NHS a top priority of his and tirelessly campaigned to cut NHS waiting lists with people across Portsmouth backing his campaign.
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