The Liberal Democrats have called for a new legal right for cancer patients to start treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, as part of a plan to boost survival rates and improve treatment for those affected by the disease.
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey sets out a five-year cancer plan to boost survival rates, including a new legal right for patients to start treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral.
Nearly 50,000 children in Somerset have not been seen by an NHS dentist for at least a year, shocking new figures published by the Liberal Democrats have revealed.
The UK should be one of the healthiest countries in the world. Yet our country has the worst healthy life expectancy in Western Europe.
Hundreds of NHS ambulance staff across the country are waiting to complete essential driver training, new data from the Liberal Democrats has shown. This is despite dangerous delays to response times and a shortage of ambulance drivers.
A Freedom of Information investigation by the Liberal Democrats has found hospitals with chemicals leaking in patient areas and others with multiple broken fire alarms.
Lib Dem research has revealed that fewer than one-in-two children saw an NHS dentist last year, while only a third of adults did in the past two years.
New research published by the Liberal Democrats has revealed the impact of the social care crisis on the NHS in Somerset with medically fit patients left stuck in hospital beds waiting for care.