The Chancellor plans to invest billions in the NHS, with £1.5 billion for new surgical hubs and scanners, plus £70 million for radiotherapy machines. Health Secretary Wes Streeting acknowledged that while improvements won’t happen overnight, this funding will support Labour’s goal of providing two million additional NHS appointments each year. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00What we're confirming today is that the budget and in fact the measures already taken by the
00:06Chancellor in the first months of the Labour government will mean we are delivering our
00:10commitment of 40,000 more appointments every week and not just more appointment but reformed ways
00:16of working to get more bang for our buck and we are also going to double the number of diagnostic
00:21tests and scanners over the course of the Parliament so that we can start getting those
00:25NHS waiting lists down from the record levels we see today to by the end of this Parliament
00:30making sure that people aren't waiting longer than 18 weeks for care and that's how it should
00:36have always have been but of course we saw under the Conservatives the extent to which the NHS was
00:40run into the ground. People are realistic about the fact you don't turn the NHS historic crisis
00:45around in a single budget or a single year but what the Chancellor announces this week will do
00:51is to arrest the decline in the NHS and start fixing the foundation so we can get those waiting
00:56lists down and start improving our NHS.