With 7 Million People stuck on nhs Waiting Lists, we cannot grow the economy with 2. 5 Million People shut out of the Labour Market by long term physical and mental illness. When people are not supported to recover from long covid, wait weeks for a gp appointment, cant get basic help so they can get back to work my feed their families they can get back to work my Feed Theirfamilies and get they can get back to work my feed their families and get on in they can get back to work my Feed Theirfamilies and get on in life. A healthy economy needs a healthy population and a healthy nhs. And i have been so proud that we Liberal Democrats have consistently led the way in highlighting the crises in the nhs and proposing solutions. Reversing cuts to gp numbers and guaranteeing an appointment when you need one. Tackling life threatening Ambulance Delays and improving access to nhs dentists. There is so many parts of our nhs plan that will both treat People Better and boost our economy. And today
instead putting patients at risk. one such target is for cancer treatment to begin. it s meant to be a maximum of 62 days, roughly two months, but ian binn s waited four months. by the time he started chemotherapy, his stage i cancer had become stage iv. he told me the wait for treatment was easily the worst time in his life. i d wake up every morning wondering if i had a future, wondering that every day the cancer would be advancing within me. strangely enough, when it got to about three and a half months, i became almost resolved in thinking, this is too late, nothing good is going to happen to you now, which was the case, the scan had shown it had spread. bbc analysis has found the vast majority of the key nhs targets have been missed for seven years or more. it looked at maximum waits for cancer treatment to begin last hit in england in 2015
This action comes as part of the government's pollution control plan known as the 'Graded Response Action Plan' (GRAP) which is implemented in Delhi-NCR to combat air pollution during the winter season.