Being in power is about making choices.

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And for the last 14 years, at almost every possible opportunity, the Conservatives took the wrong choices with our NHS.

Their choices broke the system, and when we took over just 20 months ago, the prognosis was not good.

You’ve just seen your local GP after feeling unwell.

They are confident they know the cause of your symptoms.

However, they must refer you to specialist clinicians for further checks, tests, or scans for a definitive diagnosis.

And when that diagnosis is for something serious, like suspected bowel, breast, or prostate cancer, you’d be right in thinking time is of the essence.

But the nearest hospital is miles away.

First available appointments aren’t for weeks, months, piling uncertainty and anxiety on top of physical stress.

Illness should never make us victims of geography and punishingly long waits.

The NHS should fit around people’s lives, not the other way around.

This Government agrees. That’s why this Government is making the right choices.

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