08.05.15
Conservatives win election – their health policies in full
The Conservatives will form the next government with a working majority, and so are in a position to put their manifesto into action.
This could result in some big changes for the NHS. Below is a summary of their pledges on health and care:
- “We will implement the NHS’s own plan to improve health care even further – the Five Year Forward View.”
- “We are able to commit to increasing NHS spending in England in real terms by a minimum of £8bn over the next five years.”
- “We want England to be the first nation in the world to provide a truly seven day NHS.”
- “We will restore your right to access a specific, named GP.”
- “We will continue to eliminate mixed-sex wards and hospital infections.”
- “We will ensure that the independent Care Quality Commission rates all hospitals, care homes and GP surgeries.”
- “We will boost transparency even further, ensuring you can access full information about the safety record of your hospital and other NHS or independent providers, and give patients greater choice over where and how they receive care.”
- “We will give you full access to your own electronic health records, while retaining your right to opt-out of your records being shared electronically.”
- “We will be the first country to implement a national, evidence-based diabetes prevention programme.”
- “We will speed up your access to new medicines by implementing the findings of our Innovative Medicines and Medical Technology Review.”
- “We will continue to invest in our lifesaving Cancer Drugs Fund.”
- “We will enforce the new access and waiting time standards for people experiencing mental ill-health, including children and young people.”
- “We will increase support for fulltime unpaid carers.”
- “We will guarantee that you will not have to sell your home to fund your residential social care.”
- “We will continue to integrate the health and social care systems, joining-up services between homes, clinics and hospitals, including through piloting new approaches like the pooling of around £6bn of health and social care funding in Greater Manchester and the £5.3bn Better Care Fund.”
Photo shows David Cameron returning to Downing Street this morning. Credit: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
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