CORBYN: I’LL PUT £26bn IN THE NHS
Health boss greets ‘rescue plan’
HEALTH services would receive £26billion under a Labour government.
Jeremy Corbyn’s party unveiled the pledge yesterday, and vowed to fund it by taxing the country’s richest people.
Labour said its NHS “rescue plan” will provide safe, quality care, recruit thousands of staff, rebuild all the crumbling facilities and provide state-of-theart equipment.
Speaking today, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth will vow to “end the Tory NHS crisis” with £26bn real-terms funding.
Mr McDonnell is expected to say: “The world-class health service we all need and depend on needs proper funding.
“Labour’s policies to tax the richest in society and invest for the future through our Social Transformation Fund mean we will be able to improve millions of lives.
“Ending privatisation means money can be spent on healthcare rather than dividends for Boris Johnson’s friends in the private healthcare industry.”
Mr Ashworth is expected to say: “We are announcing today the levels of investment our NHS needs to not only again provide quality care for the sick and elderly that they deserve but secure the NHS for the future as well.
“We’ll invest more to prevent people becoming ill in the first place and we’ll give mental health and wellbeing a greater priority than ever before.”
Nigel Edwards , chief executive of the independent thinktank Nuffield Trust, said the fund would let the NHS “breathe a sigh of relief ”.
He added: “It is enough to get most waiting times back on track over time, but tough decisions will still have to be made.”
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