The NHS is Britain’s most loved public service and the fairest system of healthcare in the world. 

Now that our investment and reform have brought waiting lists down, we will create legally enforceable guarantees for all patients.

Families need healthcare to be available close to their homes and workplaces, and open when they need it. That is why we have built new GP practices and GP-led health centres across the country, and why we made sure that more GP surgeries open for longer in the evenings and at weekends.

As people live longer and more active lives, the elderly expect more power and control over the care services they receive.  Labour will create a new National Care Service so that everyone has fair access to the support they need and the dignity they deserve. As a starting-point, we will offer free personal care at home for those with the highest needs.

LABOUR’S RECORD

• The NHS now has 89,000 more nurses and 44,000 doctors than in 1997

• Hospital waiting lists are at their lowest level since records began

• Over three-quarters of GP practices now offer extended opening hours
  

With Labour...

A maximum two-week guarantee on cancer referrals, and an 18-week guarantee for hospital treatment, as well as rights to free health checks.

Over the next five years we will focus on early cancer diagnosis, giving GPs direct access to ultrasound and MRI scans, to create a right to diagnostic tests, with results, within one week.

A new National Care Service with free personal care for the elderly with highest needs, paid for by cutting red tape in the NHS and local councils.

Are the Tories a change you can afford?

The Tories would scrap Labour’s two-week cancer referral guarantee; the 18-week treatment guarantee; and the four-hour A&E waiting time guarantee.

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