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