The Labour Party built the NHS & only we can be trusted to save it. Today, @UKLabour has outlined a plan to rescue our National Health Service. This [thread] lays out Labour’s NHS 10 point plan & why the changes are needed. Via the @DailyMirror. #VoteLabour (1/11)

1. £1 billion to restore the nurses’ training bursary for nurses to help recruit 24,000 extra nurses and midwives. #VoteLabour (2/11)

2. Expand GP training places to 5,000 to create 27 million more appointments with family doctors. #VoteLabour (3/11)

3. Scrap hospital car parking charges. *not included in the £26bn and will be separately costed in the manifesto. #VoteLabour (4/11)

4. Free prescriptions across the UK. #VoteLabour (5/11)

5. Provide an extra £1.5 billion to increase the numbers of CT and MRI scanners. #VoteLabour (6/11)

6. £2 billion to upgrade mental health buildings and £1.6 billion to fund counselling services for schools and community services for people with severe mental illness. #VoteLabour (7/11)

7. An extra £2.5 bn to upgrade GPs surgeries so they can deliver better for their communities. #VoteLabour (8/11)

8. More investment in digital and artificial intelligence to ensure the transformation of future services. #VoteLabour (9/11)

9. NHS capital budgets increased by £15bn over five years to rebuild NHS hospitals and community facilities and clear the repair backlog, funded from Labour’s Social Transformation Fund. #VoteLabour (10/11)

10. A £1bn annual increase for public health including an extra £100m each for addiction and obesity services, £75m extra for sexual health and £75m extra for 0-5 services. Plus an extra 4,800 health visitors and school nurses. #VoteLabour (11/11)