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This is another one of our manifesto deep dive episodes.

Phil and Kirsten are here with me.

Hello.

Hello there.

And we're going to focus on health now and what the different parties are saying about health.

As always, we're focusing on the larger parties, but we will mention the others

relevant as we go. Right, let's kick off with Labor then, Phil. What is their plan for health?

I mean, Labor really love talking with the NHS because they see, the NHS is always a big

sort of vote winner for parties because they say we're the ones are going to save the NHS.

But Labour are stressing they're the ones who set up the NHS in the first place in

1945 and they say they saved it before and they're going to save it again.

So in terms of their specific pledges, in Scotland, they want to fund an extra 160,000 extra appointments per year to cut

waiting times. So basically that would be setting up extra clinics and actually operations as

well in the evenings and at weekends. So basically they would use money to pay for extra capacity

in the health service in order to get more people in to get their

appointments done. And they fund that by closing non-dom tax loopholes. But of course, we talked

about tax in another episode, which you can find in your feeds. They also want to fix NHS staffing

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