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Labour and Tories both offering more austerity for the NHS, finds Nuffield Trust
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting meet patients and staff at Bassetlaw Hospital in Nottinghamshire to discuss Labour's plan to reduce NHS waiting lists if they get into power after the forthcoming General Election on July 4, June 15, 2024
BOTH Labour and Tories are offering new austerity for the National Health Service if they win the general election — only worse, research shows.
Independent health think tank Nuffield Trust has scrutinised both parties’ pledges on the NHS.
It believes both parties, because of their rigid fiscal plans, will leave the NHS in crisis with lower increases in spending than those imposed by the Tories and Liberal Democrats at the height of austerity.
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