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Over seven million people are currently on NHS waiting lists: Can Labour transform the health service?
National World - LocalTV
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20/12/2024
The government has pledged to revitalise the NHS with promises to cut waiting times and modernising services.
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Which, dare I say, most people hope to never have to use, but if we do, then we want it
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to be the best it can be.
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And we hear all sorts of sort of stories of sort of people sort of on trolleys.
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Indeed, I was listening to a phone in very recently, and they were talking about people
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sort of being brought in.
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And of course, these are often older people with ailments, being on trolleys for sort
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of for days on end, sleeping in chairs.
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So there's a big, big crisis.
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And it's certainly sort of in a pretty poor shape, probably pretty dreadful shape compared
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to when the sort of the government or this Labour government left office in 2010.
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So who do you blame for that?
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Well, of course, the sort of the current government will say that the sort of the Conservative
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Party have sort of starved of cash.
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But of course, they will say that it's a sort of it's a it's a big organisation and you
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have to sort of keep putting lots of money into it.
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Well, Labour has pledged to revitalise the NHS by cutting waiting times, shifting care
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closer to home, integrating social care and modernising services through digital transformation.
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Labour has called the NHS's current state a national scandal.
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And if I say that the NHS employs something like one and a half million people and its
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budget this year is well over sort of 190 billion.
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It's the sort of the it's a huge consumer of sort of cash, which, of course, the sort
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of this government doesn't have a lot of to splash about because of the sort of the problem
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is it again, it argues it's inherited from the previous administration.
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It is a worsening situation within the NHS.
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Over three million patients are waiting over 18 weeks for treatment, 234,000 over a year
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with a median wait time of 14.2 weeks.
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The point is, though, that many people when faced with crisis, that they are in a pretty
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poor sort of situation or treated really badly and that surely should not continue.
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