Ambitious goals that won’t be delivered without investment The UK is heading towards a general election—expected sometime in 2024—and the Labour party is currently ahead in opinion polls on how the public would vote.12 A lot can change between now and then. But if the party finds itself in government, Labour says its policy agenda will be based on five “missions”—broad goals for improving the economy, clean energy, health, education, and the criminal justice system.3 The Labour leader, Kier Starmer, announced plans for his party’s health mission in a speech on 22 May.45 The headline ambition is to “build an NHS fit for the future.” Starmer backs the core principles of the NHS but says it must reform to keep up with changing health needs, such as more people living with multiple chronic diseases, and new technology. Labour would target improvements in three areas: faster access to NHS services (such as shorter waits in emergency departments), improved survival rates from “avoidable killers” (including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and suicide), and better health and health equity (with a target to improve healthy life expectancy for everyone and halve gaps in healthy life expectancy …

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工党的健康“使命”

没有投资就无法实现的雄心勃勃的目标 英国即将举行大选（预计将于 2024 年某个时间举行），目前工党在公众投票方式的民意调查中处于领先地位。 12 从现在到那时，很多事情都可能发生变化。但工党表示，如果该党入主政府，其政策议程将基于五个“使命”——改善经济、清洁能源、健康、教育和刑事司法系统的广泛目标。3 工党领袖基尔·斯塔默 (Kier Starmer) ，在 5 月 22 日的一次演讲中宣布了其政党的卫生使命计划。45 其主要目标是“建立适合未来的 NHS”。斯塔默支持 NHS 的核心原则，但表示必须进行改革，以满足不断变化的健康需求，例如越来越多的人患有多种慢性病，以及新技术。