FUNDING

This is a national emergency. That’s why we’re calling on the new Labour government to invest properly in our NHS. The NHS staff shortage is now at 100,000 vacancies (March 2024), with waiting lists of 7.6 million for NHS appointments (6.3 million patients) and long ambulance wait times. Over 250 people are dying avoidably every week from delays in emergency care and thousands are dying from hospital delays in assessment and treatment. 

PRIVATISATION

We believe that  turning towards private sector providers, who have failed the NHS time and again, wasting tens of billions during the pandemic, will only make things worse. We urge those now in government to commit to a fully funded and fully public health and care service model. We need a return to a publicly funded and provided national health service, protected from private companies, who put profit before patients.

STAFFING

Staff are the NHS’s most precious resource. To save lives, we must end the staffing crisis and deliver the kind of services we want and deserve. To preserve staff morale, avoid a mental health crisis among health and care staff, and safeguard services for patients and service users, the Government  must recruit and retain more frontline staff, pay them properly and commit to end outsourcing of staff.