Yesterday, the UK went to the polls within the Normal Election 2024 to vote for the subsequent authorities. With nearly each seat now declared, it’s clear that Labour have gained a majority and can type the subsequent authorities. With a working majority of not less than 85 MPs, fulfilling a few of their pledges with out an excessive amount of opposition needs to be comparatively straight ahead.
As we converse, the Labour Get together can be forming the subsequent authorities. This contains deciding who’ll be the subsequent Secretary of State for Well being and who’ll develop into the subsequent Well being Ministers.
We all know what Labour’s preliminary plans and visions are for well being and care due to the pledges in their manifesto. However what occurs subsequent for our It’s A No Brainer marketing campaign calling for a Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique?
The Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique marketing campaign up to now!
Over 52,000 individuals signed our open letter calling on the federal government to implement a Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique.
In April, we delivered the open letter to the then Well being Minister, Andrew Stephenson, and his counterparts throughout the devolved nations – ensuring your voices have been heard loud and clear in Westminster, Holyrood, the Senedd and Stormont.
When the Normal Election 2024 was known as, we knew loads would change – together with a change in Westminster’s Well being Minister, Prime Minister and authorities – however our message hasn’t!
We nonetheless need a Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique!
What have Labour promised to do?
Labour’s manifesto included plenty of promising pledges about well being and care, together with bettering analysis instances, reducing the time it takes to obtain remedy and delivering the NHS Lengthy-Time period Workforce Plan. We consider this may go a way in direction of bettering the expertise for individuals residing with a mind tumour.
They’ve additionally pledged to approaching analysis in a extra holistic method, recognising that, alongside funding, it additionally wants structural modifications to enhance the panorama. That is precisely what we’ve spoken about in calling for a Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique – how analysis funding is only one aspect of the image.
However there are nonetheless a lot of issues that weren’t included within the manifesto. For instance, there isn’t any point out of Medical Nurse Specialists (CNS) and the way very important their position is for thus many individuals receiving remedy and care, not simply individuals with a mind tumour.
Manifestos are normally fairly prime line and concentrate on the route a celebration needs to go in. So, it isn’t surprising that Labour’s manifesto doesn’t embrace each aspect of their plans to enhance remedy and care within the UK.
However this doesn’t imply we gained’t be making our voices – and the voices of the broader mind tumour group – loud and clear from the second they type the brand new authorities.
What are we going to do a couple of Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique?
Firstly, we have to replace the brand new Secretary of State and related Well being Ministers on our open letter and the help we had. It will embrace explaining why implementing a Nationwide Mind Tumour Technique is the suitable factor to do for the mind tumour group.
Then we’ll want to start out participating the brand new MPs – in addition to the re-elected MPs – and construct new relationships that may assist help us in parliament over the subsequent 5 years.
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