Healthcare for all.
Labour Manifesto 2017:
- Extra £6 billion a year for the NHS
- Extra £9 billion on social care
- Guarantee patients can be seen in A&E within 4 hours
- Increase tax on private medical insurance
- Implement a ‘sugar tax’ as part of their strategy to counter childhood obesity
- Protect spending on mental healthcare and increase proportion spent on children
- National Health Service (Public health, NHS staff, NHS funding)
- Towards a National Care Service
- Mental Health
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Innovation in Heath Care : Services, Quality, Outcomes
Labour will repeal the Tories’ Health and Social Care Act to put the right values back at the heart of the health service: co-operation and collaboration, not competition and privatisation.
More Services
- Planned hospital care
- Rehabilitation care
- Urgent & emergency care (incl. out-of hours)
- Community health care
- Mental health & learning disability services.
High Quality
- Preventing people from dying prematurely
- Enhancing the quality of life for people with long-term conditions
- Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury
- Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care (lower waiting times, shorter travel times)
- Shorter waiting times
- Integrated health & care services into a seamless system of whole-person care (physical, mental and social).
Improved Outcomes
- Reducing premature deaths of most common causes of mortality (heart disease, stroke, lung disease, liver disease, cancer)
