Strengthening our NHS

The NHS is always there for us – free at the point of use for everyone in the country – and truly showcases the very best of Britain

That’s why the Prime Minister has made it his immediate task to make sure frontline services have the funding they need, to make a real difference to the lives of NHS staff, and above all, of patients.

It’s time to make sure the NHS receives the funds it needs, to continue being the best healthcare service in the world. Getting our country back on the road to a brighter future by:

  • Upgrading 20 hospitals – ensuring that money for the NHS really does get to the front line. We’ve committed an extra £1.8 billion for the NHS – including £850 million for 20 hospitals – to ensure front-line services have the funding they need, supporting doctors, nurses, and of patients. 
  • Improving treatment for patients by injecting £250 million into artificial intelligence within the NHS. The government is are setting up a National Artificial Intelligence Lab to ensure people with conditions such as cancer and dementia can receive the latest treatments and truly personalised care.


Under the Conservatives we’ve protected our NHS:

  • Providing an extra £33.9 billion cash for the NHS by 2023-24 and ensuring this funding reaches the frontline. The five-year budget settlement is the biggest cash boost for the NHS ever.
  • Making sure our NHS has the staff it needs to continue delivering world class care. We are increasing doctor and nurses training places by a quarter, one of the biggest expansions in NHS history, and are training 15,000 GPs between 2015 and 2020. There are now over 17,550 more doctors than in May 2010, and over 17,000 more nurses on our wards. 


Jeremy Corbyn cannot be trusted to fund the NHS:


  • Labour offered less money for the NHS. Labour’s manifesto committed 2.2 per cent more a year, which they said would make the NHS ‘the envy of the world’. This is much less than the 3.4 per cent a year.increase which the Conservatives are delivering
  • The NHS in Wales has been underfunded by Labour. HM Treasury figures show that health spending in England increased by 22.6 per cent between 2010-11 and 2017-18, but only increased by 17.4 per cent in Wales over the same time period. If it had increased at the same rate, NHS Wales would have over £315 million more to spend. 


Our NHS is not for sale.

 As the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary have repeatedly made clear, the NHS is not on the table in trade talks.

Just as Labour always claims that their opponents will destroy the NHS, those who hate free trade always claim that whatever trade treaty is under consideration will mean selling off the NHS. Both claims have always turned out to be wrong.

Before the vote to leave the EU, the far left and some on the Leave side claimed that the proposed EU and USA trade treaty, TTIP, would mean selling off NHS assets to US companies. That was nonsense then.

Now the Labour party and some ultra-Remainers are recycling the same tired old scaremonger about any UK-USA trade treaty. That is nonsense now.



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