Health secretary said he is not doing ‘victory laps’ as Labour says it has met its manifesto promise early
The government has claimed that it has delivered early on an election pledge to offer an extra two million NHS appointments in England within a year.
In a statement, the government said:
The prime minister has welcomed new figures published by NHS England which reveal that between July and November last year, the NHS delivered almost 2.2 million more elective care appointments compared to the same period the previous year – delivering on the government’s mission to fix the NHS as part of the plan for change.
The new data confirms the government reached the target seven months earlier than promised – with 100,000 more treatments, tests, and scans for patients each week, and more than half a million extra diagnostic tests delivered.
What we’ve seen in the NHS over the course of winter with ambulance response times, and corridor care, [there’s] a hell of a lot more to do there. Mental health is in a dire state. There’s a huge amount more to do there.
And on each of those fronts, of course, we are going to deliver what we said in our manifesto.
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