Speaking at the King’s Fund, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says there will be “no more money for the NHS without reform”. The speech follows an independent report by former health minister Lord Darzi which criticised the state of the National Health Service. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00public satisfaction in the NHS has fallen from an all-time high when the
00:07last Labour government left office to an all-time low today and that's because as
00:13everybody in the country knows the last government broke the NHS. Until this
00:20morning we didn't know the full scale of the damage which is laid bare in the
00:25report. Even Lord Darzi with all his years of experience is shocked by what
00:31is discovered. A Labour government will always make the investment in our NHS
00:37that is needed, always. But we have to fix the plumbing before turning on the taps.
00:43So hear me when I say this, no more money without reform. I'm not prepared to see
00:54even more of your money spent on agency staff who cost five thousand pounds a
01:00shift, on appointment letters which arrive after the appointment, or on paying
01:07for people to be stuck in hospital just because they can't get the care they
01:12need in the community. And tonight there'll be 12,000 patients in that very
01:16position. That's enough to fill 28 hospitals. So we can't go on like this.