General Election Special Edition – Spring/Summer 2024

The Adam Bojelian Foundation (AdsFoundation) publishes a quarterly health law, policy & ethics update.  This quarter, as the United Kingdom heads towards a general election on 4th July 2024, we are doing something slightly different.  With all our resources we aim to bring together health law, policy and ethics resources in one place so that they are much easier to find. For this quarterly update we have brought together what the Parties are promising on health and social care and what experts have said about these election promises.

The general election is about leadership so now is a good time to re-share Adam Bojelian’s poem Leadership, which talks specifically about NHS leadership, but can be applied to all leadership.

Health and Social Care are both devolved in Scotland and Wales. This update includes details of  SNP and Plaid Cymru policies and independent analysis of these where available, but the main geographical focus of this update is England, as the Westminter Parliament and government is responsible for health and social care in England.

In this General Election Special Edition we start by linking you to the parties manifestos and analysis generally and then provide health and social care specific party policies and analysis. On this page you will find links to:

• the party manifestos
• BBC summaries of key manifesto points
• Institute of Fiscal Studies financial/economic analysis of the manifestos
• Full Fact analysis of the manifestos
• summaries of what the parties are promising on health and social care
• expert analysis of the parties proposed policies from the BASW, BMA, the Health Foundation, NHS Confederation and Royal College of Physicians
• leading health organisation’s including Carers UK, Mental Health Foundation, NHS Confederation. Nuffield Trust, Patients’ Association & RCPCH, own manifesto suggestions & wishes

Party Manifestos

Listed in alphabetical order

Conservative

Green

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Plaid Cymru

Reform

Scottish National Party

From the BBC ‘11 Key policies analysed’

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British publicly funded, public service broadcaster.

Conservative

Green

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Plaid Cymru

Reform

Scottish National Party

Financial Analysis of Party Manifestos from the Institute of Fiscal Studies

The Institute of Fiscal Studies is an independent economic research institute in London, UK, which specialises in UK taxation and public policy.

Conservative

Green

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Plaid Cymru

Reform

Scottish National Party

Full Fact Analysis

Full Fact is an independent UK charity established in 2009 which checks and correct facts reported in the news and on social media.

Full Fact’s analysis of the party manifestos can be found here.

Key Health Pledges

Conservative Party pledges include:

• Accelerate NHS recovery from the pandemic.
• Deliver safe and effective services and improvements in wating times for primary, elective, cancer and emergency care.
• Return performance to levels set out in the NHS Constitution by the end of the next Parliament.
• Invest in and modernise the NHS.
• 92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors in the NHS by the end of the next Parliament than in 2023.
• Improve working conditions for NHS staff.
• Expand Pharmacy First.
• Build or modernise 250 GP surgeries.
• Build 50 more Community Dignostic Centres.
• Dental Recovery Plan will unlock 2.5 million more NHS dental appointments.
• Train more staff in rural and coastal areas across England.
• Protect and promote Patient rights.
• Grow opportunities for all types of providers.
• Reduce NHS managers by 5,500 releasing £550 for frontline services.
• Bring forward Tobacco and Vapers Bill
• Priortise women’s health.
• Implement the Cass Review.
• Expand coverage of Mental Health Support Teamsto 100% of schools and colleges in England by 2030.
• Open early support hubs for 11-25 year olds in every local community by 2030.
• Expand NHS Talking Therapies by 50%.
• Create 140,000 additional places in Individual Placement and Support for Severe Mental Illness.
• Introduce legislation to provide better treatment and support for sever mental health needs in the first session of Parliament.
• Maintain position that assisted dying is a matter of conscience and respect the will of Parliament.
• Pay comprehensive compensation to all those impacted by the infected blood scandal.

Green Party pledges to ‘press for’ on health:

• A year-on-year reduction in waiting lists.
• Guaranteed access to an NHS dentist.
• Guaranteed rapid access to a GP and same day access in case of urgent need.
• An immediate boost to the pay of NHS staff, including the restoration of junior doctors’ pay, to help with staff retention.
• Increasing the allocation of funding to primary medical care, with additional annual spending reaching £1.5bn by 2030.
• Restoring public health budgets to 2015/16 levels with an immediate annual increase of £1.5bn. Smoking cessation, drug and alcohol treatment and sexual health services all need to be properly funded.
• A National Commission to agree an evidenced-based approach to reform of the UK’s counter-productive drugs laws.
• A new NHS dentists’ contract so that dentists are properly rewarded for taking on NHS patients
• Additional investment in NHS dentistry reaching £3bn a year by 2030.
• Funding for community hubs and primary care to roll-out free dental nursing for children and those on low incomes.
• A legal framework that supports the rights of those struggling with their mental health to be respected and to live fulfilling lives.
• Increased funding for mental health care, putting it on an equal footing with physical health care and enabling people to access evidence-based mental health therapies within 28 days.
• A trained and paid counsellor in every school and sixth-form college.
• Readily available tailored provision to meet the needs of communities of colour, children and adolescents, older people and LGBTIQA+ communities.
• Adequate support in the school system for neurodivergent children and children with special educational needs.
• A change in the law to legalise assisted dying for people suffering from terminal disease who wish to avoid prolonged unnecessary suffering, if this is their clear and settled will. Proper safeguards would be put in place.
• No more HIV transmissions by 2030, advocating for a joined-up evidence based approach.

Labour party pledges include:

• Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 more appointments every week.
• Double the number of cancer scanners.
• A new Dentistry Rescue Plan.
• Introduce a supervised tooth-brushing scheme for 3- to 5-year-olds, targeting the areas of highest need.
• 8,500 additional mental health staff.
• Train thousands more GPs.
• Get the NHS back on its feet.
• Patients should expect to wait no longer than 18 weeks from referral for consultant-led treatment of non-urgent health conditions.
• An extra two million NHS operations, scans, and appointments every year; that is 40,000 more appointments every week.
• Incentivising staff to carry out additional appointments out of hours.
• Pool resources across neighbouring hospitals to introduce shared waiting lists to allow patients to be treated quicker. 
• Use spare capacity in the independent sector to ensure patients are diagnosed and treated more quickly.
• Ensure the publication of regular, independent workforce planning, across health and social care.
• Deliver the NHS long-term workforce plan to train the staff needed to get patients seen on time.
• Reset relations with NHS staff.
• Introduce a new ‘Fit For the Future’ fund to double the number of CT and MRI scanners, allowing the NHS to catch cancer and other conditions earlier, saving lives.
• Deliver the New Hospitals Programme.
• Develop an NHS innovation and adoption strategy in England. This will include a plan for procurement, giving a clearer route to get products into the NHS coupled with reformed incentive structures to drive innovation and faster regulatory approval for new technology and medicines.
• Transform the NHS app, putting patients in control of their own health to better manage their medicine, appointments, and health needs. This will include giving performance information on local services, and notifications of vaccinations and health checks. Patients will be able to see the medical guidelines for the treatment they should get, to hold health services to account and understand what their choices are.
• Trusts failing on maternity care are robustly supported into rapid improvement.
• Train thousands more midwives as part of the NHS Workforce Plan and set an explicit target to close the Black and Asian maternal mortality gap.
• Digitise the Red Book record of children’s health.
• Establish a Royal College of Clinical Leadership to champion the voice of clinicians.
• Implement the Cass Review.
• Guarantee a face-to-face appointment for all those who want one and deliver a modern appointment booking system to end the 8am scramble.
• Bring back the family doctor by incentivising GPs to see the same patient, so ongoing or complex conditions are dealt with effectively.
• Create a Community Pharmacist Prescribing Service, granting more pharmacists independent prescribing rights where clinically appropriate.
• Allow other professionals, such as opticians, to make direct referrals to specialist services or tests, as well as expanding self-referral routes where appropriate.
• Trial Neighbourhood Health Centres, by bringing together existing services such as family doctors, district nurses, care workers, physiotherapists, palliative care, and mental health specialists under one roof.
• Recruit an additional 8,500 new mental health staff to treat children and adults.
• New Young Futures hubs will provide open access mental health services for children and young people in every community.
• Modernise mental health legislation modernise legislation to give patients greater choice, autonomy, enhanced rights and support, and ensure everyone is treated with dignity and respect throughout treatment.
• Ensure the next generation can never legally buy cigarettes.
• Ensure all hospitals integrate ‘opt-out’ smoking cessation interventions into routine care.
• Ban vapes from being branded and advertised to appeal to children.
• Ban advertising junk food to children along with the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s.
• Build on the Online Safety Act, bringing forward provisions as quickly as possible, and explore further measures to keep everyone safe online, particularly when using social media.
• Give coroners more powers to access information held by technology companies after a child’s death.
• Tackle the social determinants of health, halving the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions in England.

Liberal Democrats party pledges include:

• Give everyone the right to see a GP or the most appropriate practice staff member within seven days, or within 24 hours if they urgently need to, by:
  • Increasing the number of full-time equivalent GPs by 8,000, half by boosting recruitment and half from retaining more experienced GPs.
  • Giving everyone 70+ and everyone with long-term health conditions access to a named GP.
  • Freeing up GPs’ time by giving more prescribing rights and public health advisory services to qualified pharmacists, nurse practitioners and paramedics.
  • Introducing a universal 24/7 GP booking system.
  • Removing top-down bureaucracy to let practices hire the staff they need and invest in training.
  • Establishing a Strategic Small Surgeries Fund to sustain services in rural and remote areas.
• Guarantee access to an NHS dentist for everyone needing urgent and emergency care by:
  • Bringing dentists back to the NHS from the private sector by fixing the broken NHS dental contract and using flexible commissioning to meet patient needs.
  • Introducing an emergency scheme to guarantee access to free NHS dental check-ups for those already eligible: children, new mothers, those who are pregnant and those on low incomes.
  • Guaranteeing appointments for all those who need a dental check before commencing surgery, chemotherapy or transplant.
• Take action to prevent tooth decay by:
  • Providing supervised toothbrushing training for children in nurseries and schools.
  • Scrapping VAT on children’s toothbrushes and toothpaste.
• Work towards a fairer and more sustainable long-term funding model for pharmacies, and build on the Pharmacy First approach to give patients more accessible routine services and ease the pressure on GPs.
• Improve early access to mental health services by:
  • Opening walk-in hubs for children and young people in every community.
  • Offering regular mental health check-ups at key points in people’s lives when they are most vulnerable to mental ill-health.
  • Putting a dedicated, qualified mental health professional in every school, as set out in chapter 8.
  • Ending out-of-area mental health placements by increasing capacity and coordination between services, so that no one is treated far from home.
  • Extending young people’s mental health services up to the age of 25 to end the drop-off experienced by young people transitioning to adult services.
  • Increasing access to clinically effective talking therapies.
  • Taking an evidence-led approach to preventing and treating eating disorders, and challenging damaging stigma about weight.
  • Making prescriptions for people with chronic mental health conditions free on the NHS, as part of our commitment to review the entire schedule of exemptions for prescription charges.
  • Transforming perinatal mental health support for those who are pregnant, new mothers and those who have experienced miscarriage or stillbirth.
  • Tackling stigma through continued support for public education including Time to Talk.
  • Cutting suicide rates with a focus on community suicide prevention services and improving prevention training for frontline NHS staff.
  • Recognising the relationship between mental health and debt, and providing better signposting between talking therapies and debt advice.
  • Ending inappropriate and costly inpatient placements for people with learning disabilities and autism.
  • Modernising the Mental Health Act to strengthen people’s rights, give them more choice and control over their treatment and prevent inappropriate detentions.
  • Creating a statutory, independent Mental Health Commissioner to represent patients, their families and carers.
  • Widening the current safety investigation into mental health hospitals to look at the whole patient experience, including ward design and treatment options.
• Boost cancer survival rates by:
  • Introducing a guarantee that 100% of patients will be able to start treatment within 62 days from urgent referral.
  • Replacing ageing radiotherapy machines and increasing their number, so no one has to travel too far for treatment.
  • Recruiting more cancer nurses so that every patient has a dedicated specialist supporting them throughout their treatment.
  • Passing a Cancer Survival Research Act requiring the Government to coordinate and ensure funding for research into the cancers with the lowest survival rates.
  • Halving the time for new treatments to reach patients by expanding the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s capacity.
  • Launching a new prostate cancer screening programme for those at higher risk.
• Help people spend more years of their life in good health by:
  • Increasing the Public Health Grant, with a proportion of the extra funding set aside for those experiencing the worst health inequalities to co-produce plans for their communities.
  • Establishing a ‘Health Creation Unit’ in the Cabinet Office to lead work across government to improve the nation’s health and tackle health inequalities.
  • Introducing regulations to halt the dangerous use of vapes by children while recognising their role in smoking cessation for adults, and banning the sale of single-use vapes.
  • Improving access to blood pressure tests in community spaces.
  • Expanding social prescribing and investing in community projects that bring people together to combat loneliness.
  • Introducing a new kitemark for health apps and digital tools that are clinically proven to help people lead healthier lives.
  • Introducing a new levy on tobacco company profits to help fund healthcare and smoking cessation services.
  • Protecting children from exposure to junk food by supporting local authorities to restrict outdoor advertising and restricting TV advertising to post-watershed.
  • Extending the soft drinks levy to juice-based and milk-based drinks that are high in added sugar.
  • Tackling air pollution and poor air quality in public buildings with a Clean Air Act, as set out in chapter 12.
• Train, recruit and retain the doctors, nurses and other NHS staff we need, including by:
  • Establishing a properly independent pay review body.
  • Retaining more staff across the NHS through a ten-year retention plan.
  • Making flexible working a day-one right and expanding access to flexible, affordable childcare, as set out in chapters 4 and 9.
  • Fixing the work visa system and exempting NHS and care staff from the Immigration Skills Charge, as set out in chapter 18.
  • Ending the false economy of spending money on agency workers and encouraging the use of flexible staff banks.
• Fix the life-threatening crisis in our ambulance services by:
  • Ending excessive handover delays for ambulances by increasing the number of staffed hospital beds to end degrading corridor care, and fixing social care as set out in chapter 7.
  • Publishing accessible, localised reports of ambulance response times.
  • Creating an emergency fund to reverse closures of community ambulance stations and cancel planned closures where needed.
• Implement a ten-year plan to invest in hospitals and the primary care estate to end the scandal of crumbling roofs, dangerous concrete and life-expired buildings.
• Create a new ‘Patients Charter’ to harness lived experience of patients and embed patient voice, partnership and safety standards across health and care settings, including:
  • A new legal right to a second opinion.
  • A new legal right to maintain contact in all health and care settings.
  • Protecting patient data and patients’ rights to opt out of data sharing.
• Implement the recommendations of the Infected Blood Inquiry in full, including delivering full and fair compensation to all victims of the scandal in a timely and transparent manner.
• Introduce truly independent complaints processes and transparent monitoring of reports of sexual misconduct in the NHS.
• End the General Medical Council’s five-year rule which prevents patients raising complaints relating to matters more than five years old.
• Enable patients to leave hospital when they no longer need to be there by investing in social care and community care, as set out in chapter 7.
• Develop and implement a post-pandemic strategy for supporting people who are immunocompromised.
• Harness the benefits of new technology and digital tools for patients by:
  • Ring-fencing budgets to enable the NHS to adopt innovative digital tools that improve patient care and experience and save staff time and costs.
  • Replacing old, slow computers to free up clinicians’ time to care for patients.
  • Requiring all IT systems used by the NHS to work with each other.
  • Ensuring every care setting has electronic records that can feed into a patient’s health record with the patient’s consent.
  • Expanding virtual wards and investing in new technologies that free up staff time and allow people to be treated at or closer to home.
• Review diagnostic provision across the NHS and implement a new ten-year Strategic Diagnostics Plan.
• Improve faster access to new and novel medicines and medical devices by seeking a comprehensive mutual recognition agreement with the European Medicines Agency.
• Combat the harms caused by drugs by:
  • Moving the departmental lead on drugs policy from the Home Office to the Department of Health and Social Care.
  • Investing in more addiction services and support for drug users, including specialist youth support services.
  • Freeing up police time, reducing court backlogs, tackling prison overcrowding and reducing the harms of drug misuse by diverting people arrested for possession of drugs for personal use into treatment where appropriate.
  • Protecting young people, tackling the criminal gangs and taking ‘skunk’ off the streets by introducing a legal, regulated market for cannabis. Sales will be restricted to over-18s only, from licensed retailers with strict limits on potency and THC content.
  • Treating Scotland’s drug deaths crisis as a public health emergency, and devolving powers for tailored solutions where necessary.
• Provide a fair funding deal for hospices, including children’s hospices, recognising the valuable services they provide and saving money on hospital admissions.

Plaid Cymru party pledges include:

• Fair funding from Westminster, enabling us to invest in our NHS workforce and recruit 500 GPs into Wales after years of Tory cuts and Labour mismanagement in Cardiff.
• A new Cancer Strategy to ensure cancers are caught and treated earlier, and ending Wales’s postcode lottery for treatment.
• Wage restoration pledges for NHS staff must be implemented as soon as possible.
• Review governance of the NHS in Wales, looking to strengthen oversight and accountability so that patients receive a better outcome.
• Streamlining and standardising targets, making lines of accountability clearer and recruiting managers with more specialist and relevant knowledge.
• Greater independent oversight of health board managers.
• Introduce a regulatory body for Senior Health Managers.
• Move public health towards becoming a wellness service that is geared towards keeping people healthy.
• A review of the financing model for Wales should better consider the determinants of healthcare to meet Wales’ needs.
• Open a new dental school in Bangor, as part of the new medical school to train more dentists to answer Wales’s needs.
• Scrap the dental charge increases.
• A Stop Cancer Strategy, would ensure no downgrading of urgent suspected cancer referrals, lower the sensitivity threshold for bowel cancer screening – as has already been done in Scotland and England – and increase rates of lung cancer screening, to ensure that more cancers are caught and treated earlier.
• Invest in the workforce to recruit, train and retain more oncology staff.
• Ensure that support was made available as soon as an individual presents themselves as neurodiverse, whether this be through referral or self-referral.
• Support a change in the legislation on drug tariffs which has pushed up prices and a review into the supply chain to ensure that patients get the medication that they need, when they need it.

Reform’s pledges include:

• All frontline NHS and social care staff to pay zero basic rate tax for 3 years.
• End training caps for all UK medical students.
• Write off student fees pro rata per year over 10 years of NHS service for all doctors, nurses and medical staff.
• Harness independent and not-for-profit health provision in the UK and overseas.
• Tax relief of 20% on all private healthcare and insurance.
• NHS Patients to receive a voucher for private treatment if they can’t see a GP within 3 days. For a consultant it would be 3 weeks. For an operation, 9 weeks. Services will always be freeat the point of use.
• Operating theatres must be open on weekends.
• Review all NHS Private Finance Contracts for significant savings potential.
• Charge those who fail to attend medical appointments without notice.
• Abolish the NHS Race and Health Observatory.
• Cut waiting times with a campaign of ‘Pharmacy First, GP Second, A&E Last’.
• Offer tax incentives for new pharmacies and those who employ more staff.

Sccottish National Party pledges include:

• Protect our NHS from the twin threats of Westminster privatisation and austerity.
• Pressure the UK goverment through legislation to to keep the NHS in public hands and boost NHS England funding by at least £16bn each year, providing an
  extra £1.6bn to NHS Scotland.
• Investing £300m to drive down waiting times.
• Boost NHS spending by a minimum of £10bn extra each year to address rampant
  inflationary pressures and improve performance.
• Match Scotland’s NHS pay deals by increasing investment in NHS England staff pay and conditions of at least £6bn.

Key Social Care Pledges

Conservative party pledges include:

• At the next Spending Review,  giving local authorities a multi-year funding settlement to support social care.
• Taking forward the reforms in our ‘People at the Heart of Care’ White Paper.
• Attract and retain a high-quality care workforce.
• Make reforms to shape the market for older people’s housing .
• Support unpaid carers.
• Implement planned reforms to cap social care costs from October 2025.

Green party pledges include ‘pushing for’:

• Investment of £20bn.
• Introduce free personal care along the lines successfully brought in by the Scottish Government, to ensure dignity in old age and for the disabled.
• Increase pay rates and introduce a career structure for carers to rebuild the care workforce.
• An additional £3bn to enable local authorities to provide high-quality children’s social care.

Labour party pledges include:

• Ensuring everyone lives an independent, prosperous life.
• Undertake a programme of reform to create a National Care Service, underpinned by national standards, delivering consistency of care across the country.
• Services to be locally delivered, with a principle of ‘home first’ that supports people to live independently for as long as possible.
• Standards will ensure high-quality care and ongoing sustainability, and ensure providers behave responsibly.
• Develop local partnership working between the NHS and social care on hospital discharge.
• Enhance partnership working across employers, workers, trade unions and government and establish a Fair Pay Agreement in adult social care.
• Sector collective agreement will set fair pay, terms and conditions, along with training standards.
• Guarantee the rights of those in residential care to be able to see their families.
• Task regulators with assessing the role social care workers can play in basic health treatment and monitoring.
• Build consensus for the longer-term reform needed to create a sustainable National Care Service.

Liberal Democrat party pledges include:

Provide truly personalised care that empowers individuals by:

• Trialling personal health and social care budgets so that individuals are in control of what care they receive.
• Rolling out digital platforms for care users to develop networks, relationships and opportunities, connecting with care workers, friends and family, voluntary groups and more.
• Improving communication standards so carers can support care users to co-produce and monitor care plans.
• Developing a digital strategy for tech-enabled lives.
• Establishing an Independent Living Taskforce to help people live independently in their own homes,

• End the postcode lottery of service provision and provide national, high-quality care for everyone who needs it by:
  • Providing predictable, consistent funding for free personal care.
  • Increasing transparency and accountability as to how money is spent through local authorities.
  • Creating a National Care Agency to set national minimum standards of care.
  • Enabling individuals to transfer their care package so they don’t feel stuck in their current locality due to their care needs.
• Give unpaid carers a fair deal by:
  • Increasing Carer’s Allowance and expanding eligibility for it, as set out in chapter 10.
  • Introducing a statutory guarantee of regular respite breaks for unpaid carers.
  • Introducing paid carer’s leave, building on the entitlement to unpaid leave.
  • Making caring a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and requiring employers to make reasonable adjustments to enable employees with caring responsibilities to provide that care.
  • Introducing a Young Carers Pupil Premium as part of an ‘Education Guarantee’ for young carers.
• Make careers in social care more attractive and value experienced staff to improve retention by:
  • Creating a new Carer’s Minimum Wage, boosting the minimum wage for care workers by £2 an hour, as a starting point for improved pay across the sector.
  • Creating clear career pathways, linked to recommended pay scales, which put an end to the undervaluing of skills in the sector.
  • Creating a career ladder to allow flexibility to work across the NHS and social care, allowing staff to gain experience in both.
  • Creating a Royal College of Care Workers to represent this skilled workforce.
  • Expanding the NHS Digital Staff Passport to include the care sector.
• Recruit more staff to the sector with a social care workforce plan, akin to the NHS England workforce plan, that includes ethical international recruitment.
• Support people to age well by:
  • Establishing a Commissioner for Older People and Ageing.
  • Rolling out active ageing programmes and trips and falls assessments for everyone over the age of 75 to prevent falls, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and promote healthy ageing.
  • Opening fracture liaison services so that osteoporosis patients can get the treatment they need and prevent long-term issues and costs.
• Support children in kinship care and their family carers by:
  • Introducing a statutory definition of kinship care.
  • Building on the existing pilot to develop a weekly allowance for all kinship carers.
• Make care experience a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 to strengthen the rights of people who are in or have been in care.
• Refresh the national strategy for loneliness collaboratively with service providers and people who have lived experience of loneliness, to be overseen by a dedicated Minister for Tackling Loneliness.

Plaid Cymru party pledges include:

• Social care, like health care should be free at the point of use, and that the distinction between the two is artificial. Ending this distinction will also help with reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, the time that people remain in hospital rather than care settings. Plaid pledge to continue to work towards this goal, particularly to support those with dementia.
•  Support John’s Campaign for the right of people to be supported by their family carers and will provide clarity that it is a human right for family visits to care homes to support patients with dementia.
• A commitment to the consultation on the elimination of profit in children’s services provision as part of the National Care Service.
• Support the health and social care workforce in Wales, whatever their country of origin.
• Pay social care workers at least £1 above the Real Living Wage and make this index linked. This would ensure that a full-time worker was paid greater than £1,800 more than the Real Living Wage.

Reform pledges include:

• Commence Royal Commission of Inquiry into
  Social Care System, within 100 days.
• Introduce flexibility, tax incentives, VAT breaks and less waste.
• Simplify social care through a single funding stream,instead of the split between NHS and LocalAuthorities.
• More funding once national plan agreed.
• Stop large care providers from using off-shore tax arrangements.

Scottish National Party pledges include:

• Call for the reversal of recent moves by the Conservatives to stop care workers from overseas bringing their families with them to work in the UK.
• Ensure that the War Disablement Pension is exempt from the assessment of income for veterans who require social care services.

Expert of analysis of health and social care election promises

British Association of Social Workers – The professional association for social work and social workers. Only analysis on one manifesto seems to be published.

Conservative

British Medical Association – The union and voice of 190,000 medical students and doctors.

Conservative

Green Party

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Reform

The Health Foundation – a independent research and analysis charity with the aim of improving the nation’s health

– What the manifestos do and don’t day about health

–Analysis of the Conservative Party’s health pledges

–Analysis of the Labour Party’s health pledges

–Analysis of the Liberal Democrat Party’s health pledges

NHS Confederation – a membership body for organisations that commission and provide NHS services. Members include acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, community health providers, foundation trusts, mental health providers, clinical commissioning groups and some independent and voluntary sector organisations.

NHS Confederation have published their analysis of three party manifestos.

Conservative

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Royal College of Physicians –an independent, patient-centred organisation representing tens of thousands of physicians worldwide.

Conservative

Labour

Liberal Democrat

Health and Social Care Experts’ ‘Asks’ for the next government

Several expert health organisations have published details of health policies they would like the next goverment to introduce. Click on the name of each organisation to access their policy asks.

British Association of Social Workers

The professional association for social work and social workers.

Carers UK

The leading national charity for unpaid carers. They support, advocate for, champion and connect carers across the UK.

Mental Health Foundation

A charity which challenges the way things are done to the aim of creating fundamental change in the UK’s approach to mental health by:

• Researching and developing new and more effective ways to support and protect good mental health.
• Providing everyone with evidence-backed advice and resources.
• Running national campaigns and working with local communities to nurture good mental health.
• Partnering with organisations across the UK to take the valuable lessons we’ve learned and share solutions that are proven to work.

NHS Confederation

A membership body for organisations that commission and provide NHS services. Members include acute hospital trusts, ambulance trusts, community health providers, foundation trusts, mental health providers, clinical commissioning groups and some independent and voluntary sector organisations.

Nuffield Trust

A charitable trust with the mission of improving health care in lthe UK through evidence and analysis.

Patients’ Association

An independent patient charity campaigning for improvements in health and social care for patients.

Royal College of Nursing

The worlds largest nursing union and professional body, supporting over half a million nurses, midwives, nursing support workers and students.

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

The membership body for paediatricians (doctors who work with children and young people) in the UK and around the world.

Royal College of Physicians

An independent, patient-centred organisation representing tens of thousands of physicians worldwide.

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