Labour vows to invest in workforce to improve GP access and cut waiting times

Improving access to GPs and slashing NHS waiting times will be key priorities for a Labour government if it wins the next general election, the party’s shadow health secretary has said.In a speech to the party’s annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday 28 September, Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting also took aim at what he described as the Conservatives’ “mismanagement of the NHS.”“It is an absolute disgrace,” he said. “We have the highest NHS waiting lists in history, people unable to see their GP, heart attack and stroke patients left waiting longer than an hour for an ambulance when every second counts.”He promised that Labour would set loftier ambitions than the Conservatives on GP access, following the government’s recent pledge that all patients will be given a GP appointment within two weeks.1“Patients deserve better than a two week wait to see a GP,” he said. “I have higher standards…
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