00:00What we're confirming today is that the budget and in fact the measures already taken by the
00:06Chancellor in the first months of the Labour government will mean we are delivering our
00:10commitment of 40,000 more appointments every week and not just more appointment but reformed ways
00:16of working to get more bang for our buck and we are also going to double the number of diagnostic
00:21tests and scanners over the course of the Parliament so that we can start getting those
00:25NHS waiting lists down from the record levels we see today to by the end of this Parliament
00:30making sure that people aren't waiting longer than 18 weeks for care and that's how it should
00:36have always have been but of course we saw under the Conservatives the extent to which the NHS was
00:40run into the ground. People are realistic about the fact you don't turn the NHS historic crisis
00:45around in a single budget or a single year but what the Chancellor announces this week will do
00:51is to arrest the decline in the NHS and start fixing the foundation so we can get those waiting
00:56lists down and start improving our NHS.
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