The government announces nearly £450 million of investment to expand urgent and emergency care facilities to provide faster care for patients. Wes Streeting claims he sometimes feels “the same frustration as the public” about the NHS and called on people to judge him based on year-on-year improvements.
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00:00It's June, but we are already planning and getting ahead of winter because what we saw
00:05over more than a decade of Conservative failure is that every winter came with a winter crisis
00:12and every winter almost came as a surprise to Conservative governments that didn't plan ahead.
00:16This urgent and emergency care plan will make a real difference with £450 million worth of
00:23investment. We'll be opening 40 new same-day emergency and urgent treatment centres to help
00:31ease pressure on A&E. We'll be deploying 500 more ambulances to improve response times.
00:37And for mental health patients who often find themselves quite inappropriately in a noisy,
00:44busy, terrifying sometimes emergency department when they're going through a mental health crisis,
00:49we're going to create new mental health assessment centres. Taken together, this is going to make
00:54a real difference, easing pressure on busy emergency departments and making sure that we restore
01:01that founding promise of the NHS, which was broken under the Conservatives, that the NHS will always
01:07be there for you when you need it. What I would ask people to do is judge me as I'm judging myself
01:13and holding the NHS to account on, is delivering year-on-year improvements. Can people see
01:18over the course of this Labour government things getting better? Because we know that people
01:24elected us on one word, which was change, and we've got to deliver that change and people need to feel
01:30it and experience it. And I think so far, we've been in less than a year now, I feel sometimes the
01:37same frustration that patients and the public feel. Changes has begun. Is everyone feeling it yet?
01:44No, there's still so much more to do. It does take time, but day by day, week by week, step by step,
01:51things are improving. And I hope that what people hear from me and other members of the government
01:55is reporting back on real progress, the difference we're making, but not a hint of complacency about
02:01how much more there is still to do.