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Whatever Theresa May promises on the NHS you can’t believe a word of it
Jonathan Ashworth, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, says the Tories' treatment of the Health Service is a "shameful disgrace"
The Tories have been running down the NHS for nearly nine years. Now they say they need ten years to put right the mess they’ve made.
With Labour a confident, well-funded NHS met all its waiting list and A&E targets.
Satisfaction rates were at their highest.
Under the Tories 4.3 million are left languishing on waiting lists.
Hundreds of thousands are stuck for hours and hours in A&E often on trolleys.
27,000 people are compelled to wait over 62 days for their life saving cancer treatment.
Nobody wants their parent or child subjected to this.
It’s a shameful disgrace.
Labour Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth
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Hospitals are dangerously overcrowded as 14,000 beds have been axed from wards and facilities.
The truth is year after year Tory ministers have point blank refused to provide our NHS with the cash doctors and nurses have said is actually needed.
And despite what Theresa May now promises, experts all agree the new NHS budget isn’t enough to deliver the care patients need. In fact ministers are actually imposing another £1 billion worth of cuts to health services later this year.
Labour will always work with NHS staff to put patients first. The Tories slashed training support, abolished bursaries and imposed crippling pay freezes on hardworking NHS staff.
Today that means chronic shortages for over 40,000 nurses and midwives, 10,000 doctors and 1,000 paramedics and ambulance staff. The numbers of GPs in local communities is plummeting not rising.
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Hospitals are in debt, crumbling and increasingly reliant on outdated equipment lumbered with a repair bill in the billions.
Social care services for the elderly and most vulnerable have been savaged with multi billion pound cuts.
And Theresa May helped force through a wasteful, bureaucratic reorganisation of local health services that no one wanted while lavishing billions of taxpayers’ cash on poor quality, privatised health care. Labour created the NHS and we’ll kill this Tory privatisation agenda stone dead.
Five years ago another Tory Prime Minister outlined a big new plan for the NHS.
David Cameron told us his plan would improve the NHS and make it great again.
But 5 years later thanks to Tory austerity and cuts the NHS is even further in crisis.
So whatever Theresa May promises for the NHS over the coming years, like Cameron before her, you simply can’t believe a word these Tories say when it comes to the NHS.
Hospital waiting time targets face being SCRAPPED hint Theresa May and NHS chief
Since 2004 hospitals have tried and often failed to see A&E patients within four hours. Now NHS chiefs will look at whether the target is "right for the future"
ByMartin BagotHealth And Science Correspondent
Dan BloomOnline Political Editor
12:56, 7 JAN 2019
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Crucial hospital waiting time targets could be scrapped after years of failure, Theresa May and the head of the NHS both hinted today.
The Prime Minister said hospital chiefs will "look at" whether the targets - such as seeing 95% of A&E patients within four hours - are "right for the future".
And NHS chief Simon Stevens said the four-hour target was problematic and standards should focus on "major conditions" instead.
It came as the key "constitutional" waiting time targets were not included in the NHS's 10-year plan, spelling out how it will spend £20.5bn from the government.
A national standard to admit, transfer or discharge A&E patients within four hours was launched in 2004 but has consistently not been met.
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The Prime Minister said hospital chiefs will "look at" whether the targets - such as seeing 95% of A&E patients within four hours - are "right for the future" (Image: REUTERS)
Asked if she would "water down" targets today, Mrs May said on a visit to Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool: "We're actually seeing the NHS treat more people. We're actually seeing the NHS deliver services and care to more people.
"As more people are being treated the demand has outstripped that, so we have been slipping against the targets.
"We do need to see efforts in terms of performance and improving that performance.
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Earlier the boss of the NHS indicated A&E waiting time targets could be abandoned (Image: PA)
"We've agreed NHS leaders can look at that question" said Theresa May (Image: REUTERS)
"But what the long-term plan is about is saying actually what are the right sort of targets that should be set for the future?
"We've agreed NHS leaders can look at that question."
She added: "Everything needs to be based on clinical evidence. It needs to be based on what is right for the patient.
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The long-awaited blueprint was unveiled by Theresa May at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (Image: REUTERS)
"So yes we do need to look at the performance against the existing targets. But as we're looking ahead for the NHS, let's make sure we are setting the standards that are right standards for the future as well."
Earlier the boss of the NHS indicated A&E waiting times standards could be abandoned.
The long-awaited blueprint was unveiled by Theresa May at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool today amid claims it amounted to a “wish list”.
The Prime Minister's convoy faced protests outside the hospital (Image: Colin Lane/Liverpool Echo)
Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, confirmed this morning that it will include offering “digital consultations” at every GP practice.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4 he refused to say that the plan will allow crucial NHS minimum standards - such as being seen in A&E in less than four hours - to be met.
Mr Stevens said: “The problem with the four hour target is it doesn’t distinguish between turning up with a strained finger or a heart attack.
"The problem with the four hour target is it doesn’t distinguish between turning up with a strained finger or a heart attack," said the head of the NHS (Image: REUTERS)
“So what senior doctors are telling us that those standards should focus on people with major conditions.”
Waiting times for routine treatment and cancer are at their worst on record along with the benchmark A&E standard which has not been met since 2015.
Waiting times for routine treatment and cancer are at their worst on record (Image: PA)
There is currently a consultation on whether to scrap the A&E standard which will report later this year.
The plan for the next decade is expected to prioritise slashing deaths from the three major killers - heart attacks, stroke and cancer - with higher tech treatment, genetic testing and earlier diagnosis through screening.
Other areas being prioritised are care in the community to keep people out of hospitals and mental health.
Other areas being prioritised are care in the community to keep people out of hospitals and mental health (Image: REUTERS)
The full details are being published today but experts fear the funding settlement means most other areas will have to be scaled back.
The increased £20.5 billion per year by 2023 promised by the Tories comes after an historic NHS funding squeeze and brings annual increases from 1% back up to around 3%.
The average NHS increases over its 70 year history have been 4% and experts say 3% is not enough to reverse the damage done by years of austerity.