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A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward, January 18, 2023
HEALTH campaigners have hit out at the Labour manifesto’s “light” pledges of NHS improvement.
The party’s manifesto, unveiled by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday, promises to cut waiting times in the health service by creating 40,000 more appointments every week.
Other pledges include a doubling of cancer scanner numbers, the recruitment of 8,500 additional mental health staff, a dentistry rescue plan and a child health action plan.
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
