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How healthcare and care for older and disabled people are funded and delivered. Parties are ordered left to right by our placement on the spectrum, and each line is the position in brief.

Green
Zack Polanski
10.6%
More health spending; opposes private provision in the NHS
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Increased health spending forms part of the capital programme, with the party opposing private provision within the NHS.
Less detailed than its economic and environmental platform.
Check itWhat are the Green Party's economic plans?, Economics Observatory
-8
Labour
Andy Burnham
26.1%
A publicly funded national care service
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A publicly funded national care service, which Burnham has framed as finally "grasping the nettle" on social care reform and links to his father's Alzheimer's. The Tobacco and Vapes Act, passed in April 2026, makes it illegal to sell cigarettes to anyone born after 2008.
Check itAndy Burnham's main policy pledges, Yahoo News
-3
Lib Dems
Sir Ed Davey
10.3%
Free personal care for everyone who needs it
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Free personal care for everyone who needs it, costed at £2.7bn a year by 2028–29 and funded by reversing tax cuts given to the large banks since 2016, so that nobody has to sell their home to pay for personal care. Alongside it a Carer's Minimum Wage set £2 above the minimum wage, a Royal College of Care Workers, and Carer's Allowance raised by £20 a week with eligibility extended to anyone earning under £183 a week.
Analysts have welcomed the seriousness of the reform while questioning whether the funding stream covers the long-run cost.
Check itEd Davey launches plan for free personal care, Liberal Democrats
-2
Conservative
Kemi Badenoch
20.3%
92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors
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92,000 more nurses and 28,000 more doctors in the NHS than in 2023 by the end of the Parliament.
From the 2024 general election manifesto, which remains the party's most recent full platform; Badenoch has not published a replacement, and has since abandoned the net zero target that manifesto contained.
Check itConservative manifesto summary, Local Government Association
+3
Reform
Nigel Farage
22.9%
Re-examine the funding model; tax breaks for NHS staff
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Re-examining the NHS funding model rather than the free-at-the-point-of-use principle. Specific pledges include temporarily zero-rating basic-rate income tax for NHS staff, tax relief on private health insurance, and independent reviews to train more staff and expand community services.
Check itPolicies, Reform UK
+6
Restore
Rupert Lowe
4.4%
No current published position located. This may mean the party has said little on the subject, or that we have not found what it has said. We would rather show the gap than fill it with inference.
+7

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