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12 01 10
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Conservative Draft Health Manifesto launched
The Draft Conservative Party Health Manifesto is the first pass at setting the priorities for the 2010 General Election Campaign
The following commitments are made:
- Improve the amount of information on Trust, Hospital, GP’s, doctors and other staff available online.
- Focus on improving cancer and stroke survival rates
- Enable patients to access any healthcare provider that meets NHS Standards
- Open up the NHS to include new Independent and voluntary sector providers
- Implement a ‘ payment by results ‘system throughout the NHS
- Give GPs the power to hold patient’s budgets and commission on their behalf
- Link GPs pay to the quality of the results they deliver
- Cut NHS administration costs by a third
- Weight public health funding so that extra resources go to the areas with worst health outcomes
- improve funding for hospices and other providers of palliative care for children and adults