Patients have welcomed Ed Miliband’s commitment to invest in 8,000 more GPs, 20,000 more nurses, 3000 more midwives and 5000 more home-care workers as part of Labour’s plan to build an NHS and social care system with the time to care for those who rely on it.
Patients have welcomed Ed Miliband’s commitment to invest in 8,000 more GPs, 20,000 more nurses, 3000 more midwives and 5000 more home-care workers as part of Labour’s plan to build an NHS and social care system with the time to care for those who rely on it.
Labour’s plan will be fully funded by measures to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes that allow hedge funds and big companies to avoid paying taxes when they are due. By raising the tax on properties worth more than £2million. And by raising tax on tobacco company profits.
The major announcement comes after repeated warnings that David Cameron has caused a crisis in the health service by putting private profit before patient care. The government are blamed for allowing vital services to be run down to the point at which nurses and doctors no longer have time to see patients in the way they would want and elderly people needing care have been left isolated and without support.
David Cameron’s reorganisation has left the NHS in chaos: in the last twelve months over a million people have waited more than four hours in A&E, and 60 per cent of patients say they wait more than two days for a GP appointment. Experts are warning that hospitals are understaffed, and it is patients who are paying the price.