Why wasn't that 'easy' proposition in Labour's 2017 Manifesto then?
Labour say they have worked out how much the NHS will cost and how they will raise the money. It is all part of their overall economic package, which Andrew Marr has tried to pick holes in with boring regularity since the last election.
You have said "The point is this;
we do not have enough money and are not going to get any under any prospective future Government, of
any political colour"
For you to say that no political party will provide enough money for the NHS is to put it bluntly complete BS. It is a political statement.
Labour promise:
We will guarantee and uphold the standards of service to which patients are legally entitled
under the NHS constitution.
By guaranteeing access to treatment within 18 weeks, we will take one million people o NHS waiting lists by the end of the next Parliament.
We will guarantee that patients can be seen in A&E within four hours.
By properly resourcing the NHS, Labour will stop the routine breach of safe levels of bed occupancy, and we will end mixed-sex wards.
We will deliver the Cancer Strategy for England in full by 2020, helping 2.5 million people living with cancer.
And, by properly resourcing ambulance services, we will end the scandal of slowing ambulance-response times.
Labour will focus resources on services to provide care closer to home and deliver a truly
21st century health system.
We will work towards a new model of community care that takes into account not only primary care but also social care and mental health.
We will increase funding to GP services to ensure patients can access the care they need. And we will halt pharmacy cuts and review provision to ensure all patients have access to pharmacy services, particularly in deprived or remote communities.
Labour will tackle the growing problem of rationing of services
and medicines across England, taking action to address ‘postcode lotteries’ and making sure that the quality of care you receive does not depend on which part of the country you live in. We will ensure all NHS patients get fast access to the most e ective new drugs and treatments, and insist on value-for-money agreements with pharmaceutical companies.
To make sure that autistic people
are able to access the whole of
their community and to put an end to social isolation, Labour will set
the ambition to make our country autism-friendly. We will ensure that everyone with a long-term condition, such as those with diabetes, will have the right to a specialised care plan, and access to condition-management education.
Labour said more Tim, but I guess you that. You say Jeremy Hunt is a nice bloke and the Tories are spending more on health care than anybody before, but this completely masks what has been going on. Ever more people are using the NHS and this together with inflation means not enough money in real terms has been put into health since the Tories got into power.
One example is nurses and many health workers haven't had a proper pay rise for years. Their incomes have been shrinking in real terms since 2010. This is all down to a political decision made by the Tories and their Lib-Dem idiot children in the Coalition.
Jack