Having seen NHS waiting lists rise, when they promised to reduce them, Labour has shown no record of NHS success so far.
Whoever came up with the phrase 'statistics, damned statistics and lies' must have had Labour's NHS 'National Plan' in mind.
In reality, 80 per cent of those supposedly 'new' consultants and GPs would have happened anyway because of normal increases in staff.
The National Plan will actually only deliver 500 more GPs, over five years ,, this is a far cry from the 2,000 announced.
Though Blair talked of '100 new hospital schemes in the next 10 years', even the Department of Health now admits that only 18 are attributable to the National Plan.
Moreover, the 'Plan' has contradictions which will prevent its delivery. The government has accepted Conservative policy that the NHS should be able to access private beds, but now prevents NHS consultants from working on those wards. Who does it expect to treat those people? I think there are two key issues we still need addressed. When will Labour be honest with people, instead of double and triple announcing the same figures? And when will it come up with NHS reforms that will really deliver for people in Acton?
Justine Greening
Conservative Parliamentary Campaigner
Shakespeare Road
Acton
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