General Election 2017: Work commits to investing £ 37 billion for the NHS by 2022
The job indicates that he will spend over £ 37 billion on the NHS in England over the next five years if he gains power.
Investment, of which £ 10 billion on the upgrade of computer systems and repair of buildings, would be financed by increases in taxes and capital borrowing.
Jeremy Corbyn has criticized the NHS cyberattack for "Tory cuts", promising a service "fit for modernity".
Prime Minister Theresa May Asked where the money would come to pay for the work plans.
The NHS is faced with one of the most challenging financial challenges ever faced in a growing and aging population, and there have been warnings about imminent funding in the coming years.
Work says that the extra money would be:
- Take a million people out of waiting lists by guaranteeing treatment within 18 weeks
- Define a new A-E target of one hour for the most urgent cases and does not guarantee more than a four-hour wait for other patients
- Define a new target to combat "bedblooding" by patients waiting for care arrangements before they can be discharged from the hospital
- Cancer patients must be seen within four weeks
Mr. Corbyn spelled out his £ 37 billion "new deal" for his NHS party in England - to be spent in the next parliamentary term - at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ).
In Liverpool, he said that the health service was threatened by privatization and that five years of a Conservative government would let the NHS "reduced, dismantled and plundered by private companies."
The job, he said, would put the NHS "back on its feet".
He also promised to end the ceiling on the NHS salary and appoint an independent body to decide on future increases. It is also committed to creating a Minister of Mental Health Services within the framework of the "parity of esteem" will.
The work said that a "big chunk" of investment in infrastructure of 10 billion pounds would be spent on modernizing the health service computers, to Not repeat the cyber attack that hit dozens of NHS trusts.
He pointed out a report from the National Audit Bureau saying that in February the Ministry of Health had transferred £ 950m of its £ 4.6 billion Budget of capital projects to meet the recurring costs of revenue.
- Can walk the rights of workers
- Lib Dems promises to end the compression of wages
The party said its funding pledges would be paid for "substantially" by raising income tax for the top 5%, as well as for tax increases of Corporations, the increase in private health insurance tax and capital borrowing.
Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said that they were putting money, but in return, one would expect that "Tougher targets" are respected.
Workers would describe their tax plans in their manifesto launched Tuesday, but it would be funded primarily by taxing those earning £ 80,000 and more.
"We ask those with broader shoulders to pay a little more in taxes. And all the tax that has been earned by these tax changes for people earning £ 80,000 or more Go directly to the NHS, "he told BBC Breakfast.
The Conservatives said they were putting another 10 billion pounds in the NHS and rejected the plans for work.
Ms. May declared under a Conservative government The NHS had experienced record funding.
"You can not make sure that we have a first class NHS if we have a strong economy to have the funding to invest in the NHS. Economy would shake the economy, which would mean less money for the NHS "
Lib Dem reaction
Health Service is devolved to the Scottish governments , Welsh and Northern Irish, and any new cash for England should be reflected in their Westminster funding regulations.
Poor Liberals recently said they would increase the "
Health spokesperson of the party, Norman Lamb, said: "You can not solve the crisis in our NHS and our health care. Social care services in T just more top-down targets to staff and removing numbers out of the air
"Liberal Democrats are the only party with a fully costed plan to deliver £ 6 billion more per Year for the NHS and social care by putting a penny on income tax. "
Mr. Farron also addressed the Royal College of Nursing Conference on Monday.
Janet Davies, general manager and general secretary of the college, urged the party leaders to "put patients ahead of politics by engaging in treasury and staff that the NHS needs."
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