00:00We want a leaner, more efficient state, and we want the NHS to deliver the best possible service
00:05to patients, providing good value for money for taxpayers. There is a strong argument for
00:11abolishing NHS England, which is a large and bureaucratic organisation, but it ultimately
00:16depends on whether that's accompanied by serious reforms that get the waiting list down, that
00:21provide better service to patients and increase productivity in the NHS that has been so poor
00:26in recent years. And that remains to be seen. We haven't seen yet serious reforms from this
00:31Labour government, and in the one part of the United Kingdom where the NHS is managed directly
00:36without a quango such as NHS England, in Wales, where the NHS has been run by the Labour Party
00:42for over a decade, the service of patients is demonstrably worse. Waiting lists are longer.
00:47Outcomes in crucial areas like cancer care are worse than in England. So it doesn't bode well,
00:53but we want to see the serious reforms that hopefully will accompany this change.
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