The Shadow Health Secretary spoke to the ECHO about Labour's plans for the NHS
Wes Streeting spoke about his nan's cancer treatment in Merseyside as he addressed concerns about Labour's plans to use private healthcare to ease NHS waiting times.
NHS waiting lists in England rose to 7.6m people at the end of April. The MP for Ilford North in Greater London said that Labour's plan to use private provision would ease that. "That's why we will use spare capacity in the private sector, give it to people on NHS terms, so they don't have to worry about the bill. While we do that, we're going to rebuild capacity in the NHS so that no-one ever feels forced to go private and, in the future, the NHS won't need to pay for people to go private either."
"Any one of those policies would make a real difference to people in Liverpool. Taken together, they represent a serious plan to get our NHS back on its feet and make it fit for the future." "We think those are fairer choices than the ones made by the Conservatives, who have clobbered working people with higher taxes. We're not going to make the same mistake."
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