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The Tories have been running down the NHS for nearly nine years. Now they say they need ten years to put right the mess they’ve made.

With Labour a confident, well-funded NHS met all its waiting list and A&E targets.

Satisfaction rates were at their highest.

Under the Tories 4.3 million are left languishing on waiting lists.

Hundreds of thousands are stuck for hours and hours in A&E often on trolleys.

27,000 people are compelled to wait over 62 days for their life saving cancer treatment.

Nobody wants their parent or child subjected to this.

It’s a shameful disgrace.

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Hospitals are dangerously overcrowded as 14,000 beds have been axed from wards and facilities.

The truth is year after year Tory ministers have point blank refused to provide our NHS with the cash doctors and nurses have said is actually needed.

And despite what Theresa May now promises, experts all agree the new NHS budget isn’t enough to deliver the care patients need. In fact ministers are actually imposing another £1 billion worth of cuts to health services later this year.

Labour will always work with NHS staff to put patients first. The Tories slashed training support, abolished bursaries and imposed crippling pay freezes on hardworking NHS staff.

Today that means chronic shortages for over 40,000 nurses and midwives, 10,000 doctors and 1,000 paramedics and ambulance staff. The numbers of GPs in local communities is plummeting not rising.

Hospitals are in debt, crumbling and increasingly reliant on outdated equipment lumbered with a repair bill in the billions.

Social care services for the elderly and most vulnerable have been savaged with multi billion pound cuts.

And Theresa May helped force through a wasteful, bureaucratic reorganisation of local health services that no one wanted while lavishing billions of taxpayers’ cash on poor quality, privatised health care. Labour created the NHS and we’ll kill this Tory privatisation agenda stone dead.

Five years ago another Tory Prime Minister outlined a big new plan for the NHS.

David Cameron told us his plan would improve the NHS and make it great again.

But 5 years later thanks to Tory austerity and cuts the NHS is even further in crisis.

So whatever Theresa May promises for the NHS over the coming years, like Cameron before her, you simply can’t believe a word these Tories say when it comes to the NHS.