00:00In 100 days' time, Scotland faces a choice.
00:04The most significant...
00:05The most significant choice it's had to make in 20 years.
00:09And in 100 days...
00:10In 100 days' time, we can save our most precious and treasured National Health Service.
00:15In 100 days to take our country in a different direction.
00:20In 100 days to give hope back to the people of this great country.
00:25We have a plan to fix our NHS and make it fit for the future.
00:29But above all...
00:30We want to take our NHS out of the hands of incompetent...
00:35Ministers and bureaucrats and managers and put it back in the hands of...
00:40The people it truly belongs to.
00:42The patients, the doctors and the nurses.
00:45This election won't decide what happens somewhere else.
00:50It'll decide what happens here in Scotland.
00:52It'll decide what happens to our schools.
00:55Our hospitals, our GP services, our social care system, our families, our communities...
01:00Our facilities, our towns, our cities, our villages and our islands.
01:04This election...
01:05This election is about our NHS.
01:07And for any other political party...
01:10or any other political leader, including the sitting First Minister John Swinney and the SNP...
01:15They want to make this election about everything but Scotland...
01:18But I'm determined to make it...
01:20And who can blame them for wanting to talk about anything else apart from...
01:25On their watch, more than 830,000 Scots...
01:30Waiting either for treatment or for diagnosis...
01:33Including almost 10,000...
01:35Waiting over two years...
01:37Over two years...
01:38Over two years...
01:39On an NHS.
01:40Waiting over two years...
01:41That's 53 times higher than the number in England.
01:45Despite them having 10 times the size of population we do.
01:50It means for all those thousands of people who wait far too long at A&E and when the Royal...
01:55College of Emergency Medicine tell us that that leads to unnecessary deaths in the future.
02:00To all those people that are stuck in hospital...
02:03Desperate to get out...
02:05Clear...
02:05Clear to leave...
02:06But can't...
02:07Because they can't access that care package...
02:09Either at home...
02:10Or indeed...
02:11Any care home...
02:12For all those who've had to remortgage their homes...
02:15Borrow from friends and family...
02:16Or have had to travel elsewhere...
02:18To get the private diagnosis of the...
02:20Private treatment...
02:21When they should be getting that here...
02:22At home...
02:23Those waiting...
02:25In pain...
02:26In anxiety...
02:27And putting their lives on hold...
02:29And all the...
02:30Personal consequence that has on their health...
02:32But also on their economic opportunity...
02:34And indeed...
02:35On their friends...
02:36And family...
02:37That's the record of shame...
02:39For the SNP...
02:40That's the record of failure...
02:42And that's one that we want to stop...
02:44And take our...
02:45The NHS into the future...
02:47Now people often say...
02:48That all hope...
02:50Has gone...
02:51The NHS can never be fixed...
02:52It's always going to be broken...
02:53It can't go back...
02:54To those...
02:55Founding principles...
02:56I reject that out of hand...
02:58Our NHS can work...
03:00Our NHS can be fit...
03:02For the future...
03:03Our NHS can deliver...
03:04For...
03:05To everyone...
03:06The way it should...
03:07But what we need...
03:08Is a government...
03:09That meets the ambition...
03:10Of the people...
03:10And works as hard...
03:11As our NHS staff do...
03:12If we are...
03:13To make it...
03:14A reality...
03:15So what will Scottish Labour do...
03:17To fix it...
03:18First we will declare...
03:19That national...
03:20Waiting times...
03:21Emergency...
03:22To make sure...
03:23Patients can receive...
03:24The care they need...
03:25Regarding...
03:25Regardless of where...
03:26It is available...
03:27Across the country...
03:28We will also make sure...
03:29We take...
03:30Space...
03:31Wherever It exists...
03:32So we can clear...
03:33Those Backlogs...
03:34And so people don't...
03:35Have to use...
03:35leur money to get the treatment they need.
03:38Nous allons reformer le primary care.
03:40...to end the ATM rush for a GP appointment.
03:43...and we will bring back the family.
03:45We will end corridor care and stop all the bed blocking by making sure
03:50we invest in social care and the pathways that people need to get those care packages at home.
03:55or indeed to have that place in a care home.
03:59We will also bring parity...
04:00in terms of mental health and physical health by launching the mental health emergency.
04:05Making sure there are trained paramedics, nurses and mental health.
04:10Responding directly to 999 calls, not untrained.
04:15Police officers.
04:16Now that does two things.
04:17One, of course, it gives better dignity and care to...
04:20the patient, but it also releases those police officers so they're not stuck in any...
04:25departments, they're not stuck in courtrooms, they're not stuck responding to 999 calls.
04:29Instead they're on...
04:30on the front line, supporting their communities and fighting crime.
04:33And ultimately...
04:35we will cut the bureaucracy so we've got fewer chief executives, fewer finance...
04:40directors, fewer managers and more nurses and more doctors on the front line.
04:45and fewer bureaucrats who think their job is to stand up and defend the government...
04:50that conspire against the patient and more money to the doctors and the nurses that treat the patient.
04:55and better outcomes for people across the country.
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