Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019

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We will improve access to psychological therapies to ensure they deliver the quality care patients deserve. We will ensure provision of 24/7 crisis services. Only one in four children and young people are able to receive help from a mental health professional. Our £845 million plan for Healthy Young Minds will more than double the annual spending on children and adolescent mental health services. We will establish a network of openaccess mental health hubs to enable more children to access mental health and recruit almost 3,500 qualified counsellors to guarantee every child access to school counsellors. Inequalities Life expectancy is stalling and infant mortality rates are increasing, especially among those living in our most deprived communities. A Labour government will target a reduction in health inequalities with a comprehensive children’s health strategy. We will introduce a Future Generations Well-being Act, enshrining health aims in all policies and a new duty for NHS agencies to collaborate with directors of public health. We will invest more than £1 billion in public health and recruit 4,500 more health visitors and school nurses. We will increase mandated health visits, ensure new mothers can have access to breastfeeding support and introduce mental health assessments in a maternal health check six weeks after birth. We will invest in children’s oral health, tackle childhood obesity and extend the sugar tax to milk drinks. We will ban fast-food restaurants near schools and enforce stricter rules around the advertising of junk food and levels of salt in food. We will take actions to significantly reduce infant deaths and ensure families who lose a baby receive appropriate bereavement support as well as protections at work. The re-emergence of measles is an indictment. We will urgently put in place a vaccination action plan to regain our measles-free status in WHO listings. We will fully fund sexual health services and roll out PrEP medication. We will address drug-related deaths, alcohol-related health problems and the adverse impacts of gambling as matters of public health, treated accordingly in expanded addictionsupport services. Alcoholic drinks will be labelled with clear health warnings. We will review the evidence on minimum pricing. We will implement a Tobacco Control Plan and fund smoking cessation services. 34 IT’S TIME FOR REAL CHANGE
Workforce A Labour government will end the crisis in our health and care services, plan for the future and guarantee real-terms pay rises every year. Agenda for Change terms and conditions will be put into law alongside safe staffing limits for all staff. We will invest, train and develop NHS staff throughout their careers. We will introduce a training bursary for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We will remove the obstacles to ethical international recruitment. A Labour government will review the tax and pension changes implemented by the Tory government to ensure that the workforce is fairly rewarded and that services are not adversely affected. We will provide mental health support for staff and create a working environment within the NHS that is safe, flexible and free from harassment, bullying or violence. The Orkambi cystic fibrosis drug is just the latest example of patients held to ransom by corporations charging extortionate prices for life-saving drugs. We will establish a generic drug company. If fair prices are rejected for patented drugs we will use the Patents Act provisions, compulsory licences and research exemptions to secure access to generic versions, and we will aim to increase the number of pharmaceutical jobs in the UK. We will play an active role in the medical innovation model, ensuring rewards and incentives match the areas of greatest health need. We will ensure that all parts of the NHS, the treatment of patients, the employment of staff and medicine pricing are all fully excluded and protected from any international trade deals. We will progress clinically appropriate prescription of medical cannabis. We will abolish prescription charges in England. Medicine Under a Labour government the NHS will be at the forefront of the development of genomics and cell therapies so that patients can benefit from new treatments for cancer and dementia, whilst ensuring the UK continues to lead in medical developments. Social Care Social care funding cuts have left 1.5 million older people without the care they need. Almost £8 billion has been lost from social care budgets since 2010. This is having a profound impact on unpaid carers in this country, with 2.6 million REBUILD OUR PUBLIC SERVICES 35
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS FOREWORD BY JEREMY CORBYN
Page 7 and 8: THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE. IT’S
Page 9: A GREEN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 11 19
Page 12 and 13: Now Britain is decades off course o
Page 14 and 15: Levelling Up Across the Country Man
Page 16 and 17: In the case of energy, it will also
Page 18 and 19: Skills Our Green Industrial Revolut
Page 20 and 21: einstating the 3,000 routes that ha
Page 22 and 23: ENVIRONMENT A Labour government’s
Page 24 and 25: and diabetes, as well as increased
Page 26 and 27: 26 IT’S TIME FOR REAL CHANGE
Page 29 and 30: FUNDING Universal public services,
Page 31 and 32: NHS AND SOCIAL CARE The National He
Page 33: We will introduce mandatory standar
Page 37 and 38: NATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICE Educatio
Page 39 and 40: Labour’s funding settlement will
Page 41 and 42: and bringing back the Education Mai
Page 43 and 44: fairer society that keeps us all sa
Page 45 and 46: Cybersecurity Cybercrime and cyberw
Page 47 and 48: private prisons. We will tackle the
Page 49 and 50: COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT La
Page 51 and 52: the local economy, rather than bein
Page 53 and 54: DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT D
Page 55 and 56: media, democracy and public debate,
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Page 60 and 61: savings to public finances to help
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Page 68 and 69: disabilities has been degraded by t
Page 70 and 71: MIGRATION A Labour government will
Page 72 and 73: SOCIAL SECURITY Labour holds social
Page 74 and 75: Disabled People Labour stands with
Page 76 and 77: introduce new sharing arrangements
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Page 80 and 81: We will get rid of the discriminato
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£3.4 billion in Wales, and a UK Mi
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86 IT’S TIME FOR REAL CHANGE
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THE FINAL SAY ON BREXIT Labour will
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Labour is the only party that can h
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A NEW INTERNATIONALISM 95 97 100 10
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• Conduct an audit of the impact
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on behalf of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcli
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DEFENCE AND SECURITY The primary du
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UK, to secure a long-term future fo
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Labour, DfID will continue to respo
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