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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Thank you for your rational rebuttal, Mr Campbell.
btw, how are your millionaire donors Lord Paul, Lakshmi Mittal, Bernie Ecclestone, et al?
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Can't argue with these facts can you?? Will they be the same after a year of Tory rule? Doubt it somehow.
The shortest waiting times since NHS records began.
Three million more operations carried out each year than in 1997, with more than double the number of heart operations.
Over 44,000 more doctors.
Over 89,000 more nurses
Over three quarters of GP practices now offer extended opening hours for at least one evening or weekend session a week.
All prescriptions are now free for people being treated for cancer or the effects of cancer, and teenage girls are offered a vaccination against cervical cancer.
The NHS can now guarantee that you will see a cancer specialist within two weeks if your GP suspects you may have cancer. Whatever your condition, you will not have to wait more than 18 weeks from GP referral to the start of hospital treatment – and most waits are much shorter than this.
Over 100 new hospital building schemes completed.
3,500 Sure Start Children’s Centres opened, reaching over 2.8 million children and their families.
Over 42,000 more teachers and 212,000 more support staff, including 123,000 more teaching assistants, than in 1997.
There have been around 3,700 rebuilt and significantly refurbished schools; including new and improved classrooms, laboratories and kitchens.
A free nursery place for every 3 and 4 year old - extended to 15 hours per week this year, beginning to provide 10 hours a week to the most deprived 2 year olds.
Doubled the number of registered childcare places to more than 1.3 million, one for every four children under eight years old.
More young people attending university than ever before.
In 1997 more than half of all schools saw less that 30 per cent of their pupils fail to get 5 good GCSEs including English and Maths. Now only 247 schools – less than one in twelve - fail this benchmark and there are guarantees that no school should fail this mark after 2011.
Increased school funding to support the delivery of higher standards. Between 1997-98 and 2009-10, total funding per pupil has more than doubled from £3,030 in 1997-98 to £6,350 in 2009-10 in real terms, an increase of 110 per cent.
Since 1997 overall crime is down 36 per cent; domestic burglary is down 54 per cent; vehicle related crime is down 57 per cent; and violent crime is down 41 per cent.
A new flexible Australian-style points-based system for immigration to ensure only those economic migrants who have the skills our economy needs can come to work in the UK.
Police numbers up by almost 17,000 since 1997, alongside more than 16,000 Police Community Support Officers.
Every community now has its own dedicated neighbourhood police team, easily contactable by the people who live in that community and working with them to agree local priorities and deal with people’s concerns.
Thanks to Mark Watson for the above.