:09:57. > :10:02.We have a Home Secretary, utterly complacent, and the Prime Minister
:10:03. > :10:10.utterly dismissive of the needs of the NHS. I am not surprised the
:10:11. > :10:15.Health Secretary is on the run, hiding away, trying to run away from
:10:16. > :10:20.his record as Health Secretary. When you look at what has happened to the
:10:21. > :10:27.IT budgets in the NHS, the capital infrastructure budgets have been
:10:28. > :10:31.cut, and the independent expert at the NA oh published a report
:10:32. > :10:35.recently which showed 1 billion has been taken out of infrastructure
:10:36. > :10:42.budgets and had to be transferred to the day-to-day running of the NHS to
:10:43. > :10:46.help it balance its books. -- the NAO published a report. That is ?1
:10:47. > :10:53.billion that could have been spent on infrastructure of our NHS
:10:54. > :10:56.including upgrading our IT systems. I am not surprised that the Health
:10:57. > :11:04.Secretary is running away from his record on the NHS. And just here in
:11:05. > :11:07.this part of London just a few days ago St George's warned in the
:11:08. > :11:11.minutes from a trust meeting that because of a lack of investment in
:11:12. > :11:17.the infrastructure that is cyber security attack was a risk, and
:11:18. > :11:21.indeed in the last few days, I understand St George's has been on
:11:22. > :11:26.alert taking patients from other parts of London because of the cyber
:11:27. > :11:30.security scandal. Today across the country we are getting reports that
:11:31. > :11:37.it is affecting GP surgeries. Though let me say this. The government
:11:38. > :11:41.should now publish the Department of Health's risk registers so we can
:11:42. > :11:46.all see whether the government were prepared for this cyber security
:11:47. > :11:49.attack, whether they understood the implications of their spending cuts.
:11:50. > :11:54.But I also want to say something else. You know the NHS has been
:11:55. > :11:59.going through the biggest financial squeeze in its history under these
:12:00. > :12:04.Tories. Head for head next year the NHS will be cut. ?1 billion that was
:12:05. > :12:06.taken out of last year's infrastructure budgets and
:12:07. > :12:09.is due to be taken out of is due to be taken out of
:12:10. > :12:15.infrastructure budgets again by 2020. This isn't good enough. My
:12:16. > :12:19.first announcement here today is to say to you that a Labour government
:12:20. > :12:25.will put the investment into the infrastructure our NHS needs. We
:12:26. > :12:29.will put ?10 billion into the infrastructure of the NHS and some
:12:30. > :12:44.of that, yes, will go to upgrading and security our IT systems in the
:12:45. > :12:49.NHS as well. It is a pleasure to be here with a junior doctor and to
:12:50. > :12:56.talk to you because next year is the 70th birthday of the National Health
:12:57. > :12:58.Service. It wasn't -- wasn't the creation of the National Health
:12:59. > :13:04.Service one of the greatest creations of a Labour government?
:13:05. > :13:06.Created an enduring and unshakeable principles, free at the point of
:13:07. > :13:13.need irrespective of wealth, need irrespective of wealth,
:13:14. > :13:19.therefore everyone when you need it. -- there for everyone when you need
:13:20. > :13:23.it. And get on it 70th birthday, and of these Conservatives, waiting
:13:24. > :13:27.lists climbing towards 4 million, and we have seen from the leaked
:13:28. > :13:33.could rise to as high as 5 million could rise to as high as 5 million
:13:34. > :13:40.under the Tories. 2.5 million people last year waiting beyond four hours
:13:41. > :13:44.in A departments. 26,000 people, 26,000 people waiting beyond two
:13:45. > :13:52.months for cancer treatment. Under the Tories. And next year if the
:13:53. > :13:56.Conservatives are elected in this country head forehead the money
:13:57. > :14:08.going into the NHS will be cut again. -- head for head. On the eve
:14:09. > :14:11.of the NHS's birthday let's give the NHS a birthday present. I am
:14:12. > :14:16.announcing today that a Labour government will put over ?30 billion
:14:17. > :14:26.extra over the next five years into our National Health Service.
:14:27. > :14:37.And that money, that money will go into reducing the waiting lists, so
:14:38. > :14:40.whereas waiting lists could rise by 1 million under the Tories, and
:14:41. > :14:48.Labour we are going to decrease the waiting by 1 million. Also in our
:14:49. > :14:52.A departments 2.5 million people last year waited beyond four hours.
:14:53. > :14:55.This extra investment will ensure that we treat 1 million extra people
:14:56. > :15:04.in our A departments across the country. And on cancer times, 26,000
:15:05. > :15:08.people waiting beyond two months for cancer treatment, it is a disgrace,
:15:09. > :15:15.it is not good enough. Though our extra investment will allow us to
:15:16. > :15:19.introduce a new target. The majority of people with cancer will get their
:15:20. > :15:31.treatment is not within two months, but within four weeks under a Labour
:15:32. > :15:37.government. But I want to go further as well because I think with this
:15:38. > :15:43.scale of funding we can do a lot more in our National Health Service.
:15:44. > :15:51.Many of you will have seen the reports in the news about so-called
:15:52. > :15:54.delayed discharge. This is where elderly people are often literally
:15:55. > :15:58.trapped in hospitals with nowhere to go because there isn't the
:15:59. > :16:00.appropriate provision in the community, there isn't the
:16:01. > :16:06.appropriate care packages as we call it across the NHS. It is not good
:16:07. > :16:11.enough. The way we are treating our elderly people is shameful. With
:16:12. > :16:15.this extra investment I will be asking the NHS to work with us to
:16:16. > :16:21.introduce a new target for delayed discharge. Elderly people trapped in
:16:22. > :16:27.hospitals should be a thing of the past. If an elderly person is
:16:28. > :16:30.available for discharge, we will ensure the community care is there
:16:31. > :16:37.and we will have a new target that we want 80% of people discharged
:16:38. > :16:39.from hospital within a week with a care package that is appropriate.
:16:40. > :16:48.That is the difference between Labour and the Tories on the NHS.
:16:49. > :16:52.You can clap if you want! And also because we are putting this money in
:16:53. > :16:57.and we want to reform the NHS, I think we can go further on A as
:16:58. > :17:03.well. Again we will work with the NHS to have a new target for our A
:17:04. > :17:08.departments. The most serious people who present at A, the most serious
:17:09. > :17:11.conditions, we will work with NHS clinicians and others to put in
:17:12. > :17:15.place a special target so people with the most serious of conditions
:17:16. > :17:22.and the most urgent of conditions can be treated within one hour in
:17:23. > :17:25.our hospitals. Again that is the difference between Labour and the
:17:26. > :17:31.Tories on the NHS. But I have some further announcements because with
:17:32. > :17:36.this level of funding that we are putting into the NHS, I think we can
:17:37. > :17:39.do even more. So I as the Shadow Health Secretary have already
:17:40. > :17:44.announced that I want us as a country to have the healthiest
:17:45. > :17:48.children in the world. When you look at the league tables for child
:17:49. > :17:54.health from obesity to asthma to dental health and all the various
:17:55. > :17:57.indicators, we are far too low down the international comparators. We
:17:58. > :18:03.will put money into improving child health as well. And I have got
:18:04. > :18:12.something else to tell you. You will have seen the reports as we said of
:18:13. > :18:19.nurses literally turning up at food banks on the way home from work. It
:18:20. > :18:23.is shameful. So a Labour government will get rid of the pay cap and will
:18:24. > :18:29.give our nurses and midwives and everyone who works in the NHS of
:18:30. > :18:42.their pay rise as well. -- a fair pay rise as well. But as Rosanna
:18:43. > :18:48.said, we have just come out of possibly one of the worst winters
:18:49. > :18:52.for 20 years. Some people called it a humanitarian crisis. Some people
:18:53. > :18:58.have said the NHS was like being on a burning platform. We have heard
:18:59. > :19:01.stories of ambulances backed up. We have heard stories of people waiting
:19:02. > :19:08.hours upon hours on trolleys in corridors. We now talk of corridor
:19:09. > :19:16.care in the NHS. Some hospitals have even put buzzers in the corridors to
:19:17. > :19:20.treat patients. We all heard stories this winter. Many people got in
:19:21. > :19:23.touch with me. A woman got in touch with me telling me she had been
:19:24. > :19:27.waiting nine months for a knee replacement. She was about to go in
:19:28. > :19:30.and then she got a phone call cancelling the operation. Another
:19:31. > :19:35.woman got in touch with me via email. He said she had a secondary
:19:36. > :19:39.tumour in her stomach and she was a mother of four and her operation had
:19:40. > :19:47.just been cancelled. This was the NHS this winter. Things were so bad
:19:48. > :19:51.that the gymnasium in the hospital in Jeremy Hunt's constituency got
:19:52. > :19:55.turned into award, and yet when all this was going on, all these
:19:56. > :19:59.operations cancelled, all these people waiting on trolleys, Theresa
:20:00. > :20:05.May and the Tories said it was nothing more than a small number of
:20:06. > :20:11.incidents. We should call it what it actually was. A badge of shame for
:20:12. > :20:17.this country. And I can announce today that I never ever want to see
:20:18. > :20:23.a winter like that again. So as part of the funding we are allocating to
:20:24. > :20:26.the NHS today, we will allocate a ?500 million fund for winter in our
:20:27. > :20:37.NHS we never have a winter like the winter we have just had this year in
:20:38. > :20:40.the NHS. The reason I am making these announcements is because we as
:20:41. > :20:46.a Labour government will always put patients first. We as a Labour
:20:47. > :20:51.government and I is the Health Secretary will always take
:20:52. > :20:57.responsibility for the NHS, never running scared, never vanishing,
:20:58. > :21:02.always out there, speaking out, making the case on behalf of our
:21:03. > :21:05.patients. When you look at the history of our party, we are party
:21:06. > :21:12.who has always taken responsibility for the NHS. One of my favourite
:21:13. > :21:18.poet WB Yeats wrote in dreams Begin responsibilities, and we as a party
:21:19. > :21:25.dreamed of an NHS freak at the point of use, available to all respective
:21:26. > :21:29.of means. -- free at the point of use. We took a responsibility to
:21:30. > :21:33.bring it about. In our history as a party we have always stepped in to
:21:34. > :21:38.give the NHS what it needs, to rebuild it are times when it has
:21:39. > :21:42.been pushed back, because we take responsibility. I will take
:21:43. > :21:53.responsibility. And the choice in this election is now absolutely
:21:54. > :21:57.clear. It is either a fair pay rise for NHS staff with Labour or poverty
:21:58. > :22:02.with the Tories. It is investment with Labour or cuts to the NHS with
:22:03. > :22:05.the Tories. It is 1 million of the waiting list with Labour or 1
:22:06. > :22:11.million added to the waiting list with the Tories. This election is
:22:12. > :22:14.about the future of the NHS. Let's get out there, let's make the
:22:15. > :22:16.argument and lets win it for the patients who deserve so much better.
:22:17. > :22:40.Thank you very much. Thank you so very much, everyone,
:22:41. > :22:44.for coming. It is wonderful to have you here and to hear what the Labour
:22:45. > :23:22.Party are promising for our future. Have a wonderful morning. Thank you.
:23:23. > :23:29.Thank you, Peter, good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming
:23:30. > :23:33.along. This is a most unusual election. Not only does the outcome
:23:34. > :23:37.not appear to be in doubt but most commentators do not think the result
:23:38. > :23:39.is even going to be close, so it couldn't be more different