Corporate Affairs

Party Manifestos

Scottish Labour Party Manifesto 2011

The Scottish Labour Party Manifesto for 2011 contains their plans for the Health Service over the coming years. To view click here.

Labour plan to:

• Prioritise the protection of NHS jobs, with no compulsory redundancies for NHS staff, to maintain the focus on the highest standards of care for patients

• Deliver a National Care Service within the lifetime of the next parliament, to provide the right care at the right time for people in Scotland

• Introduce a new right to see a cancer specialist and get results within two weeks by 2015, halving the current waiting time

• Deliver free swimming lessons for Scotland’s primary school children through a new Commonwealth Swimming Fund

• Support the NHS through a time of unprecedented financial pressure by delivering bold efficiency measures, including immediately cutting the number of special health boards and merging IT systems

Pharmacy is not mentioned implicitly but Labour has identified that they believe there are further efficiencies to be made in the prescribing of medicines, including the use of generic medicines and streamlining the system for repeat prescriptions.