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Half a million extra lives to be saved thanks to £20bn-a-year NHS plans that will see patients given world-leading treatment for cancers, heart attacks and strokes


HALF a million lives will be saved under a 10-year plan for the NHS launched today.

Patients will get gene tests for cancers and world-leading treatments for heart attacks and strokes.

 The NHS is to be given a £20bn a year boost to offer gene tests for cancers and world-leading treatment for strokes and heart attacks

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The NHS is to be given a £20bn a year boost to offer gene tests for cancers and world-leading treatment for strokes and heart attacks

Pledging a £20.5bn-a-year boost, the PM said the blueprint would provide “the best possible care for every major condition from cradle to grave”, and “relieve pressure” on the NHS.

NHS England chief Simon Stevens will promise a “gene revolution”.

In a world first, every child with cancer will be gene tested from this year.

Thousands more adults with breast, bowel, prostate, lung and ovarian cancer will be offered gene testing from next year. Other measures include a £2.3billion boost for mental health services.

 Theresa May said the boost would 'relieve pressure' on the NHS

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Theresa May said the boost would ‘relieve pressure’ on the NHS
  • GPs will get a larger slice of cash in a bid to keep patients out of hospital, with an extra £4.5billion annually for community care by 2024.
  • PATIENTS will get digital access to their GP via phones later this year.
  • EXTRA funds will make maternity services the safest in the world, preventing thousands of baby deaths.
  • WASTE will be slashed including administration savings of £700million.
 Heart patients will be offered a healthy living programme, saving an extra 23,000 lives

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Heart patients will be offered a healthy living programme, saving an extra 23,000 lives

Health bosses want three in four of all cancer cases diagnosed early, when they are much easier to treat.

Only half are currently identified at stage one or two. Cancer charity Macmillan backed the plans.

Around 100,000 more stroke victims will benefit from treatments such as mechanical clot-busting therapies. Heart patients will be offered a healthy living programme, saving an extra 23,000 lives.

A record number will be tested for genetic condition hypercholesterolaemia, a move backed by the British Heart Foundation.

The measures aim to prevent 485,000 early deaths from all diseases by 2028. The Royal College of Nursing backed the plan but warned of a shortfall of 40,000 nurses.

THE SUN SAYS

WE hope today marks a watershed moment for the NHS, with a plan that makes it sustainable for decades to come.

The extra billions being pumped into the Service are obviously welcome.

It’s to the Tories’ credit that they’re putting the money in, despite knowing Labour and their union brothers will give them no credit whatsoever for it.

But without sustainable reform, it is only a sticking plaster on a patient that needs far more serious treatment.

In 2000, spending on the NHS made up 23 per cent of public spending. By 2023, it will be 38 per cent. Where does it stop? How many other services do we have to cut so that we can keep propping up a system and vested interests that politicians haven’t been brave enough to take on?

Let’s be clear: healthcare free at the point of use paid out of general taxation is something we should all be proud of. The NHS is packed full of hard- working people who sacrifice high days and holidays for their patients.

But we have seen grand announcements of more money before. All too often the cash gets lost in clunking bureaucracy or procurement debacles.

This time, the Government must be clear WHERE the money is spent — dragging the NHS’s use of technology into the 21st century; cutting down on wasteful agency costs by fixing the frontline staff shortage; and streamlining management.

To save the NHS, it needs reforming.

We hope this Government is brave enough to start that process — and ignore the bleating of Labour politicians more interested in political footballs than practical policies.







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