Tories promise NHS targets revamp

"And it's awful that you're more likely to die from a stroke in England than you are in any other country in western Europe."

"So we've got a situation where we pump the same money into our health system as other countries, but on the thing that actually matters - a patient's health and the results of their actual treatment - we're doing worse." [snip]

Focusing on survival rates instead of waiting times would save thousands of lives, Conservative leader David Cameron says.

He said his party would scrap the government's "top-down" approach to NHS targets and instead focus on major diseases such as cancer and stroke...

[get that? Their wait time are 5 to 10 times what ours are - and that's what they have been focusing on. Government + health care = frightening.]

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