conservative party's draft healthcare manifesto
The Conservative Party demonstrated their commitment to the NHS by releasing the first chapter of their draft election manifesto 'Our Reform Plan for the NHS'.
It criticises Labour's "bureaucratic mismanagement" and claims that the Government have diverted NHS priorities from patient care. Although there are no new pledges in the manifesto, it pulls together a number of recent announcements into a strategy based on "decentralisation, accountability and transparency".
The promises include removing "politically motivated targets", a rejection of Labour's 'preferred supplier' policy and renaming the Department of Health the Department of Public Health. / Read synopsis