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Pay NHS staff to work evenings and weekends and use spare private healthcare capacity to offer more appointments
Labour, 27/05/2024
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Negotiate on junior doctor pay, but won't be able to afford 35% pay claim on day one of a Labour government
The Guardian, 29/05/2024
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Completely achieved |
On 16 September 2024, the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee accepted the Government's pay offer. 66% voted in favour of the deal, which raised the average pay across the two years of the dispute by 22.3%.
British Medical Association, 16/09/2024
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Recruit 8,500 specially trained staff across CAMHS and NHS talk therapies
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Train more health visitors and allow health visitors to administer routine immunisations to vulnerable and at-risk children
The Guardian, 29/05/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Use spare capacity in the independent sector to ensure patients are diagnosed and treated more quickly
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan and set an explicit target to close the Black and Asian maternal mortality gap
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Establish a Royal College of Clinical Leadership to champion the voice of clinicians
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Incentivise GPs to see the same patient so that ongoing or complex conditions are dealt with effectively
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Allow other professionals, such as opticians, to make direct referrals to specialist services or tests; expand self-referral routes where appropriate
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Commit to delivering the New Hospitals Programme
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
The schedule and "overall size and ambition of the programme" is presently under review.
GOV.UK, 20/09/2024
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Establish a "Fit For the Future Fund" to double the number of MRI and CT scanners in the NHS and improve early diagnosis
Labour, 27/05/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Deliver 2 million more NHS appointments per year
Labour, 27/05/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Treatments to start within 18 weeks for patients
BBC News, 29/05/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Cut paediatric waiting times by delivering 40,000 planned care appointments
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Provide an additional 700,000 dentist appointments each year
Labour, 06/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Introduce a targeted national supervised toothbrushing programme for 3-5-year-olds in breakfast clubs
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Continue legislation for a progressive ban on smoking
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Make all hospital trusts integrate "opt-out" smoking cessation interventions into routine care, with a named lead on smoking cessation
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Ban vapes from being branded and advertised to appeal to children
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Implement a 9pm watershed for junk food advertising on TV and ban the paid advertisement of unhealthy foods in online media aimed at children
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Ban the sale of caffeinated energy drinks containing over 150mg of caffeine per litre to under-16s
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Give councils the power to block development of new fast food shops near schools
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Implement the recommendations of the Cass Review
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Create a Community Pharmacist Prescribing Service, granting more pharmacists independent prescribing rights
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Commission a new HIV action plan in England, in pursuit of ending HIV cases by 2030
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Trial Neighbourhood Health Centres with family doctors, district nurses, care workers, physiotherapists and mental health workers in the same building
Labour, 27/05/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Digitise the Red Book (Children's Health Record)
Labour, 10/06/2024
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Not yet rated |
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Develop an NHS innovation and adoption strategy in England including a plan for procurement, giving a clearer route to get products into the NHS, coupled with reformed incentive structures to drive innovation and faster regulatory approval for new technology and medicines
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Transform the NHS app, giving performance information on local services, and notifications of vaccinations and health checks
Manifesto
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Not yet rated |
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Introduce a "New Deal for Social Care Workers" which includes a "Fair Pay Agreement" for adult social care workers by empowering trade unions to improve collective bargaining in the sector
Labour, 24/05/2024
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Undertake a programme of reform to create a "National Care Service", underpinned by national standards, delivering consistency of care across the country
Manifesto
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