Wes Streeting: The NHS is on the road to recovery

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Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, declares the NHS is “on the road to recovery” as new figures reveal NHS waiting times in England have fallen after three months of consecutive rises. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Today's figures show that the NHS is on the road to recovery.

00:04Waiting lists are falling for the first time in over 15 years and since Labour came to

00:08office they're down by almost a quarter of a million.

00:12Of course there's so much more to do, but whether it's falling waiting lists, whether

00:16it's ambulances arriving about 10 minutes faster to heart attack and stroke patients

00:21this year than they did this time last year, or indeed whether it's the fact that patient

00:25satisfaction with general practices rising where we've delivered over two and a half

00:30thousand more GPs since we came to office.

00:33There are lots of green shoots for recovery and there's lots of signs the NHS is moving

00:38forward but I'd be the first to say a lot done, a lot more to do.

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