Wandsworth NHS continues to improve
Whenever I talk about some of the practical improvements Labour in Government is achieving, I always try to relate them to our area, because in many services the sums we are investing are so vast and some of the targets quite opaque that it's hard to relate to them.
But Wandsworth NHS has just sent me an email talking about just five of the local priorities they've been working on, and the results they've achieved. For example:
In the last year, 1,225 people quit smoking using the Wandsworth NHS Stop Smoking Service.
By the end of April Wandsworth NHS had screened 6,750 young people aged 15 to 24 for Chlamydia, which not only helped keep local people free of a sexually-transmitted disease that can lead to infertility, but also helped with other aspects of sex education and birth control.
Here's one that's really important, given the appalling damage the scaremongering and misinformation about the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) immunisation did a few years ago. 86% of 2 year olds in Wandsworth were immunised against MMR this year, compared to just 60% a year ago.
And just as important, Wandsworth has been immunising local women against the Human Pathloma Virus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer. Last year 747 12 year old girls received all three courses of the HPV vaccine. This year the team are extending the programme to girls in all other secondary school year groups.
An extra 9,000 people attended Accident & Emergency, Tooting Walk-in Centre or the Queen Mary?s Minor Injuries Unit this past year, yet the NHS still met Labour's four hour waiting time target.
44 out of 47 GP practices in Wandsworth open for longer hours to provide more convenient services for patients who struggle to take time off work to attend a surgery.
Wandsworth has had the biggest reduction in cancer mortality in south west London.
St George?s Hospital has massively improved its infection control and met both targets for keeping down cases of MRSA and C.Difficile.
All these things don't just happen by luck or even by judgement. They've been achieved because of the huge investment that Labour has made in the NHS - the same investment that's built 100 new hospitals this past decade; or is eliminating mixed sex wards.
There's so much more to do to improve services provided by our NHS and to improve life expectancy and fight debilitating and fatal diseases. I'm never going to seek your vote solely on the basis of what Labour has achieved. But I am going to ask you to accept that the extra NHS investment we've provided - and which the country voted for us to deliver - has made a difference; it's not been wasted. And on that basis I ask you to consider who will best protect that investment and go on improving our National Health Service.
But Wandsworth NHS has just sent me an email talking about just five of the local priorities they've been working on, and the results they've achieved. For example:
In the last year, 1,225 people quit smoking using the Wandsworth NHS Stop Smoking Service.
By the end of April Wandsworth NHS had screened 6,750 young people aged 15 to 24 for Chlamydia, which not only helped keep local people free of a sexually-transmitted disease that can lead to infertility, but also helped with other aspects of sex education and birth control.
Here's one that's really important, given the appalling damage the scaremongering and misinformation about the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) immunisation did a few years ago. 86% of 2 year olds in Wandsworth were immunised against MMR this year, compared to just 60% a year ago.
And just as important, Wandsworth has been immunising local women against the Human Pathloma Virus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer. Last year 747 12 year old girls received all three courses of the HPV vaccine. This year the team are extending the programme to girls in all other secondary school year groups.
An extra 9,000 people attended Accident & Emergency, Tooting Walk-in Centre or the Queen Mary?s Minor Injuries Unit this past year, yet the NHS still met Labour's four hour waiting time target.
44 out of 47 GP practices in Wandsworth open for longer hours to provide more convenient services for patients who struggle to take time off work to attend a surgery.
Wandsworth has had the biggest reduction in cancer mortality in south west London.
St George?s Hospital has massively improved its infection control and met both targets for keeping down cases of MRSA and C.Difficile.
All these things don't just happen by luck or even by judgement. They've been achieved because of the huge investment that Labour has made in the NHS - the same investment that's built 100 new hospitals this past decade; or is eliminating mixed sex wards.
There's so much more to do to improve services provided by our NHS and to improve life expectancy and fight debilitating and fatal diseases. I'm never going to seek your vote solely on the basis of what Labour has achieved. But I am going to ask you to accept that the extra NHS investment we've provided - and which the country voted for us to deliver - has made a difference; it's not been wasted. And on that basis I ask you to consider who will best protect that investment and go on improving our National Health Service.
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