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Labour to get back to an 18 week waiting list within the first term

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GrannyGravy13 Wed 29-May-24 08:43:21

Our two nearest hospitals already have appointments every weekend and late evenings.

Scans, pre op’s etc. all carried out from 8am - 8pm, seven days a week.

Where are Labour going to find more clinicians to expand on this?

maddyone Wed 29-May-24 08:42:30

I hope you haven’t got a pension pot. Labour raided the private pensions in the first budget of it’s last term. That was one way they funded public spending.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 29-May-24 08:37:18

So they have found the funding for 40000 extra appointments per week and the clinicians are ready for it.

It is a positive start.

Reeves has already announced a plan for growth with a Treasury whose task is to go for growth in all its undertakings.

Keynsian economics - will produce the revenue needed to fund the NHS - Labour succeeded beyond all expectations in its last term in office

Remember by the end of the Labour government the NHS was considered the best performing health service in the world and that was all down to the investment we put in as tax payers to get something we were all proud of.

Pantglas2 Wed 29-May-24 08:31:23

And pigs might fly! Check out Wales stats under Labour over the last 25 years and see how 18 MONTHS would’ve been optimistic in most instances!

Sarnia Wed 29-May-24 08:27:23

Easy to say but in reality?

maddyone Wed 29-May-24 08:23:30

Good luck with that.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 29-May-24 08:19:28

Labour are responding to the country’s fears, that the NHS will be degraded even more if the Tories return to power, to such an extent that it becomes like the dental service.

It is an extremely demanding target, but the health professionals have agreed it is doable.

Streeting - the shadow health minister, has said that as someone whose life was saved by the NHS, owes everything to the NHS.