Party pledges: National Health Service -------------------------------------------------- Conservative: Extra £2bn “down payment” into National Health Service plan – drawn up by NHS bosses – calling for an extra £8bn a year above inflation by 2020 Recruit 5,000 more doctors Everyone in England to be able to see a GP seven days a week by 2020 £300m to be spent each year, for four years, modernising GP surgeries across UK Labour: Spend an extra £2.5bn a year – over and above Conservative plans – across UK by 2020 Recruit 36,000 extra NHS staff including 5,000 care workers, 3,000 midwives, 8,000 GPs and 20,000 more nurses Guarantee that patients will get a GP appointment within 48 hours and will wait no longer than one week for cancer tests and results by 2020 £330m for cancer treatment Liberal Democrats: An extra £1bn for NHS every year Guarantee therapy treatments within 18 weeks for conditions such as depression Want cross-party review of future of NHS funding UKIP: Extra £3bn per year in NHS funding Stop any further use of PFI (private finance initiative) All visitors and migrants must have NHS-approved medical insurance as a condition of entry to UK £200m to end hospital parking charges in England SNP: Reduce number of senior managers in NHS by 25% over next parliament. Real-term increases in year-on - year NHS spending Plaid Cymru: Recruit 1,000 extra doctors to NHS Wales – use foreign doctors until new generation of Welsh doctors are trained Greens: Dedicated NHS Tax. More funds for community healthcare. Stop privatisation. Abolish prescription charges NHS spending (2013 prices, £ billions) LAB CON 101 106 109 114 122 121 121 123 NHS is world’s fifth largest employer Total UK staff: 1.57 million Expenditure as share of GDP: 9.4% ---------------------------------------- Sources: Party manifestos, Office for National Statistics words 296