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| The Labour Party Election 2010 |
The Labour Party published its election manifesto A Future Fair For All on 12 April. Click here to read.
Ch 4 on health - proposals include:
- Everyone with a long-term condition, such as those with diabetes, will have the right to a care plan and an individual budget.
- To bring the NHS closer to people through a major expansion in care available at home, including chemotherapy and dialysis.
- The availability of GP-led health centres open seven days a week ‘8 til 8’ in towns and cities.
- Over the next Parliament more than 8,000 new therapists will ensure access to psychological therapy for all who need it as we seek to change our society’s attitudes to mental illness.
- Measures to prevent and control infections in hospitals including every patient who comes into an NHS hospital will be screened for MRSA.
Ch 6 on families and older people - proposals include:
- The right to request flexible working for older workers, with an end to default retirement at 65, enabling more people to decide for themselves how long they choose to keep working.
- A new National Care Service to ensure free care in the home for those with the greatest care needs and a cap on the costs of residential care so that everyone’s homes and savings are protected from care charges after two
years in a care home.
- More NHS services available in the home, with greater use of tele-care and personal nursing.
- Reform of the GP contract to help ensure those with late-life depression and anxiety are diagnosed and supported; and better services for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s so that every area of the country has access to psychological therapy, counselling and memory clinics.
- An end to the age discrimination that has too often seen older people disadvantaged in the provision of health services.
- A re-established link between the Basic State Pension and earnings from 2012; and help for ten million people to build up savings through new Personal Pension Accounts.
Ch 7 on communities - proposals include:
- We will protect the Post Office network, so that it can fulfil its historic role as a trusted institution serving the community.
- The local pub and social club are also hubs of community life. Too many pubs have closed that could have been sustained by local people. We will support
pubs that have a viable future with a new fund for community ownership in 2010-11.
The Labour Party's key policies are outlined here on health care, social care and on older people.
This page will be amended as more information becomes available.
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