
What does a Conservative Government mean for the NHS?
A group of doctors in scrubs (Image from Unsplash)
How will the National Health Service be affected, now that the Tories are in power?
In the early hours of Friday 13 December, it was announced that the electorate had voted for a majority Conservative Government.
With 365 seats, the Conservative party had well surpassed the 326 seat target needed to hold a majority government.
This result has many people speculating about what this will mean for the UK’s National Health Service.
In his Prime Minister’s victory speech on 13 December, Johnson stated:
“I’ve heard it loud and clear from every corner of the country that the overwhelming priority of the British people now, is that we should focus above all on the NHS, that simple and beautiful idea that repre