Where the parties stand on health
- Con
- Lab
- Lib
- Ukip
- Green
- SNP
- Introduce seven-day access to GP and hospital care by 2020 and guarantee that over-75s get a same-day appointment if they need one.
- Spend at least an extra £8bn on the NHS by 2020.
- Integrate health and social care through a Better Care Fund.
- Guarantee that every patient will be able top see a GP within 48 hours.
- Ensure all professional NHS staff receive mental health training and make psychiatric care a top priority.
- Create a single NHS service, bringing together physical health, mental health and social care.
- Put £8bn extra funding into the NHS, as requested by NHS chief Simon Stevens.
- Invest £500m per year in mental health care and introduce waiting time standards.
- Introduce a cap on the cost of social care.
- Put an additional £3bn a year into the NHS.
- Train 20,000 more nurses and 3,000 more midwives
- Crack down on health tourism, which Ukip says will save the NHS £2bn a year.
- Repeal the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and end the privatisation of parts of the NHS.
- Prioritise mental health care and increase its resources.
- Immediately increase the NHS budget by £12bn a year.
- Increase Scotland’s health revenue budget by £826m over the next few years.
- Bring in shorter waiting times, with a standard 18-week referral to treatment.
- Introduce a one-stop cancer diagnosis system.