General Election 2010

What the Parties Say – Health

The Conservative Party – Health

• Increase the money spent on health within 5 years.• Use targets on how many people are made better rather than how

many people are seen.• Let hospitals be run in the best way for each hospital.• Show how well doctors and hospitals are doing online.• Let NHS patients use private doctors if they need to.• Pay doctors and hospitals according to how well they do in curing

people.• Cut the amount spent on paperwork by 33%.• Create an NHS ‘Board’ to run it.• Stop men and women having to share the same wards in

hospitals.• Increase the number of single rooms in hospitals.• Let people pay £8,000 when they retire so that they never have to

sell their homes to pay to be looked after.

The Labour Party – Health

• To keep spending the same amount or more on caring for patients.

• To ensure all people who think they have cancer to get test results within 1 week.

• Promise cancer patients they will see a specialist within two weeks.

• Offer everyone between 40 and 74 a free, NHS health check every 5 years.

• Promise NHS patients the right to wait no longer than 18 weeks from the moment they see a doctor to when they are treated in a hospital.

• Set up a "National Care Service" for old and sick people to make sure that they are looked after properly.

• Give free personal care to people who need it the most for life. • Pay for old people’s care costs after they have spent two years in

special homes.

The Liberal Democrats – Health

• Let people vote for who is runs the hospitals in their area.• Have less targets and concentrate on making people

better.• Write ‘patient contracts’ saying what we should all get

when we have to go to hospital.• Make it easier to change your doctor.• Allow you to have more than one doctor.• Make dentist charges less for people.• Open more places to help people who are dying.• Use the cheapest but best medicines.• Give everyone the money that they need to be looked

after when they stop working at 65.

The Green Party – Health

• Stop people having to pay for health services.• Tell everyone how much they are spending

on health.• Give free medicines to everyone.• Spend money to look at how pollution makes

people ill and how exercise makes people healthy.

UKIP – Health

• Make people pay an insurance for their health care BUT make sure that you can see a doctor without paying.

• Put matrons in charge of wards in hospitals.• People should vote for who runs their local

hospitals.• Let doctors work for as many hours as they

need to.