Grahame Morris writes:
The NHS will be at the heart and soul of Labour’s General Election campaign.
We have lost five years, as the Coalition’s top down reorganisation has left the NHS unprepared to meet the health challenges of the 21st Century.
The current NHS crisis is rooted in the Government’s decisions to make cuts to adult social care, abolish NHS Direct, they have closed almost one in four walk-in centres, and their reckless reorganisation diverted resources away from frontline services.
In these circumstances patients have little option but to present at A&E when the government reduce access to and the number of primary care services.
The current A&E crisis is a warning that there are failures elsewhere within the health system.
The Coalition Government do not acknowledge there is a crisis, however, every week thousands of patients are unable to get an appointment with their GP, they are being denied access to treatment, or they are left waiting in A&E, which is being stretched to breaking point.
However, there is an alternative and Labour will build an NHS with time to care.
Through fairer taxes on properties worth over £2 million, on hedge funds, and on tobacco companies Labour will train and recruit 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs.
As we did through the creation of the NHS, and when we saved the NHS in 1997 after 18 years of Tory neglect and negligence, it will fall again to Labour to transform our health services and make them ready for the new health challenges we face in the 21st Century.
The Government claim to have protected NHS spending.
However, they have ‘achieved’ this through making false economies and cuts in social care have led to increased pressure on the NHS.
Last year the number of avoidable hospital admissions soared to a record high of more than half a million, costing the NHS around £1 billion.
This is simply unsustainable and the Government are failing to address the underlying causes putting pressure on our NHS.
Labour’s NHS blueprint calls for an integrated home to hospital service, backed by a new arm of the NHS, 5000 homecare workers within the NHS to help those in greatest need, supporting vulnerable adults leaving hospital who need extra help to move back into their home.
The new homecare workers will also support the terminally ill so they can stay with their family at the end of life.
A new focus on prevention will see providers rewarded for preventing vulnerable people falling ill or injuring themselves, and a new social care safety check will be offered to all vulnerable older people to identify risks to their health like cold homes, loneliness and risk of falls in order to tackle and avoid unnecessary hospital visits that will also improve the quality of life for older and vulnerable adults.
Labour have offered a real alternative in contrast to the malaise offered by the Government.
It is only through transforming the NHS, with a focus on prevention, the integration of social and health care that we can have a National Health and Social Care Service fit enough to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
The NHS will be at the heart and soul of Labour’s General Election campaign.
We have lost five years, as the Coalition’s top down reorganisation has left the NHS unprepared to meet the health challenges of the 21st Century.
The current NHS crisis is rooted in the Government’s decisions to make cuts to adult social care, abolish NHS Direct, they have closed almost one in four walk-in centres, and their reckless reorganisation diverted resources away from frontline services.
In these circumstances patients have little option but to present at A&E when the government reduce access to and the number of primary care services.
The current A&E crisis is a warning that there are failures elsewhere within the health system.
The Coalition Government do not acknowledge there is a crisis, however, every week thousands of patients are unable to get an appointment with their GP, they are being denied access to treatment, or they are left waiting in A&E, which is being stretched to breaking point.
However, there is an alternative and Labour will build an NHS with time to care.
Through fairer taxes on properties worth over £2 million, on hedge funds, and on tobacco companies Labour will train and recruit 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs.
As we did through the creation of the NHS, and when we saved the NHS in 1997 after 18 years of Tory neglect and negligence, it will fall again to Labour to transform our health services and make them ready for the new health challenges we face in the 21st Century.
The Government claim to have protected NHS spending.
However, they have ‘achieved’ this through making false economies and cuts in social care have led to increased pressure on the NHS.
Last year the number of avoidable hospital admissions soared to a record high of more than half a million, costing the NHS around £1 billion.
This is simply unsustainable and the Government are failing to address the underlying causes putting pressure on our NHS.
Labour’s NHS blueprint calls for an integrated home to hospital service, backed by a new arm of the NHS, 5000 homecare workers within the NHS to help those in greatest need, supporting vulnerable adults leaving hospital who need extra help to move back into their home.
The new homecare workers will also support the terminally ill so they can stay with their family at the end of life.
A new focus on prevention will see providers rewarded for preventing vulnerable people falling ill or injuring themselves, and a new social care safety check will be offered to all vulnerable older people to identify risks to their health like cold homes, loneliness and risk of falls in order to tackle and avoid unnecessary hospital visits that will also improve the quality of life for older and vulnerable adults.
Labour have offered a real alternative in contrast to the malaise offered by the Government.
It is only through transforming the NHS, with a focus on prevention, the integration of social and health care that we can have a National Health and Social Care Service fit enough to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.
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