Budget will give £33.2 million to Bolton Primary Care Trust says Bolton South East MP

Dr Brian Iddon MP for Bolton South East today released the figures that show how the Labour Government is to continue to invest in improving the NHS

Dr Iddon said,

“In two weeks time, the NHS will receive a cash injection of £8 billion to help wipe out waiting lists across the country – an increase of £33.2 million for Bolton Primary Care Trust”

“This will help deliver a maximum wait of 18-weeks from referral to treatment by December 2008 with many patients seen even more quickly than that.

To achieve this waiting time reduction would be a huge success for the NHS – making it more streamlined and productive as well as creating a much better experience for patients.  It will change people’s lives by improving care and cutting unnecessary delays.

Dr Iddon continued,

“Labour believes in the NHS.  We established it and in the last ten years we have been re-building it from the decimated state the Tories left it in.  The Tories claimed that they will do all they can to improve the NHS but they also want to cut spending by £28 billion.  They can’t have it both ways.  They must decide what their policy is.” 

Investment in the NHS by Labour has already delivered the lowest waiting times ever, 50,000 extra lives saved from cancer, 150,000 lives saved from coronary disease, 300,000 extra staff - an NHS that is improving the health and well-being of the people of England.