WARRINGTON South Labour Parliamentary candidate Nick Bent has welcomed Ed Miliband’s election pledges on the NHS as “vital to the future well-being of Warrington people, young and old.”
Speaking in Trafford, where the first NHS hospital was opened in 1948, the Labour Leader said the party would build anNHS with “time to care”, with 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs.
He pledged “joined up” services from home to hospital, GP appointments within 48 hours and cancer tests within one week.
He also said 5,000 extra home care workers would be recruited totreat terminally ill people in their own homes.
Mr Bent (pictured) said: “Both patients and staff tell me they fear for the future of the NHS if the Tories get five more years in power and Labour’s plan to save the NHS – with more money from a Mansion Tax and extra taxes on tobacco companies – is well worth voting for.”
The Labour pledges on the NHS come in the same week that a nationwide BBC/Populus poll suggested that people think the National Health Service is the single most important issue to be covered by the news ahead of the election – but also in the same week as a British Social Attitudes survey claimed that public satisfaction with the NHS had risen significantly, with 65 per cent either “very” or “quite” satisfied with the NHS.
NHS pledges vital for Warrington
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