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Labour to set out plan to 'save' NHS after Miliband pledge Burnham: NHS 'not for sale' in Labour hands
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Labour is to give more details of its plan for the NHS, after Ed Miliband's pledge to "save and transform" it. Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has said Labour will put "people before profit" in the NHS, as he promised to "rescue a shattered service".
As Labour's conference continues later, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham will explain what a £2.5bn annual funding boost will mean for patients. He told the Labour conference its blueprint for an NHS "personal to you and your family" would be at the centre of its general election campaign.
Mr Miliband has been criticised for not mentioning the budget deficit during Tuesday's keynote speech. Aides later said he forgot to deliver that section. Terminally ill patients would have the right to free palliative care at home.
Chancellor George Osborne said omitting the deficit was "extraordinary". Labour has said it will inject £2.5bn into the NHS to pay for 36,000 more GPs, nurses and other professionals.
Mr Miliband, who spoke for more than an hour without the help of an auto-cue, said his government would provide for 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 more GPs, 5,000 more care workers and 3,000 more midwives by 2020. On Tuesday, Ed Miliband announced plans for a "time for care" fund to pay for 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 more GPs, 5,000 more care workers and 3,000 midwives by 2020 - paid for by a crackdown on corporate tax loopholes, a "mansion tax" and a levy on cigarette makers.
He said the "time to care" fund would be paid for by: Mr Burnham said the one of the first acts of a Labour government would be to repeal the coalition's re-organisation of the NHS in England to stop what he said was its "dismantling".
But BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said it was "not yet clear" what Labour's £2.5bn pledge would mean for the NHS. 'Election battle'
"The coalition government has actually increased the budget by a similar amount in cash terms, but that only equates to 0.1% rises each year in real terms once you factor in inflation," he said. A Labour government would reinstate the NHS as "preferred provider" of services and ensure hospitals worked together rather than in competition with each other, he told delegates.
'Can't fix economy' "We will free the NHS from David Cameron's market... The market is not the answer to 21st Century health and care."
Setting out his 10-year plan to build a "world-class Britain" at the Manchester conference, Mr Miliband promised to raise the minimum wage by £1.50 an hour by 2020 and give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote. Next year's election, he argued, would be a "battle for the soul" of the NHS.
He also said Britain under Labour would be building 200,000 homes a year by 2020, and by 2025 he wanted as many young people taking apprenticeships as currently go to university. "So today we serve notice on David Cameron and Nick Clegg: Thursday 7th May 2015 - your day of reckoning on the NHS.
But aides said the Labour leader forgot to deliver key parts of his speech - one in which he was to promise to "deal with our nation's debts" and another on immigration. "A reckoning for trashing the public's most prized asset without their permission. And a reckoning for a ruinous reorganisation that has dragged it down and left it on the brink."
Responding to this, Mr Osborne tweeted: "Ed Miliband didn't mention the deficit once. Extraordinary. If you can't fix the economy you can't fund the NHS." While the NHS would "never be for sale" under Labour, he said "radical" structural change was needed if it was to meet the growing demands placed on it in a time of austerity.
Shadow health minister Liz Kendall said: "It was an hour-long speech and things always change in the delivery. A future Labour government would pursue the full integration of health and social care services, a move which could save billions, put social care on an equal footing and "complete the vision" of former Labour minister Aneurin Bevan, regarded as the architect of the NHS.
"I don't think anybody in the shadow cabinet is under any illusions about the scale of the challenge we face with the deficit, how we need to live within our means as a country, how we need to balance the books." Carers' rights
She said shadow chancellor Ed Balls had set out a range of Labour economic policies in his speech on Monday. Labour, he said, would address the "ever-increasing hospitalisation" of older people by transforming all hospital trusts and NHS bodies into integrated care organisations.
"It makes no sense to cut simple support in people's homes only to spend thousands keeping them in hospital. We can't afford it. It will break the NHS."
As part of a shake-up of palliative care, he said patients would be given the right to die at home "where clinically possible".
Up to 60,000 people on the "end of life register" could potentially be offered free care at home in their final few months, starting with those with substantial social care needs.
He also announced new rights for carers, including ring-fenced funding for a respite break, the right to an annual health check and assistance with parking charges.
But BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said it was "not yet clear" what Labour's £2.5bn pledge would mean for the NHS, given the coalition government had actually increased the budget by a similar amount in cash terms.
For the Conservatives, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Mr Burnham failed to mention NHS failures - including the Mid-Staffordshire scandal - under the last Labour government.
"Andy Burnham talked about NHS privatisation that isn't happening," he tweeted.
"Less than five minutes after criticising the Health and Social Care Act, Burnham promises a reorganisation of the NHS."