Orpington Labour Party

At our May meeting, members of Orpington Labour Party agreed to submit six amendments to the ‘Partnership in Power’ consultation documents. These amendments will be debated at the National Policy Forum and if adopted should be endorsed at the Labour Party Conference in the autumn.

The Labour government’s massive injection of much needed resources into the NHS and the introduction of targets in health care standards have undoubtably been successful. The cut in waiting times has been dramatic and must have led to the saving of life. However such successes not only have to be balanced by problems occuring afterwards, and the distortions in some other treatments because of this, but also by the fact that in many cases the quality of treatment is still at the bottom of a Euro-comparison list.