Wales election issue guide 2016: Health and social care
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Parties listed alphabetically
Ensure no one has to wait more than 28 days for a cancer diagnosis or the all-clear
Bring down NHS waiting times by training and recruiting 1,000 extra doctors and 5,000 additional nurses
Provide free care for the elderly starting with abolishing charges for home care and people with dementia in the next five years
Reorganise the NHS by fully integrating primary, community and adult social care, and create a national network of acute and specialist hospitals
Introduce locally elected heath boards
Assign a specialist cancer nurse to everyone who is given a cancer diagnosis
Launch a Keogh-style independent inquiry into the whole NHS with the aim to ensure safe and minimum staffing levels
Improve Welsh language provision for dementia and end-of-life care
Place greater emphasis on promoting public health and reducing health inequalities
Change NHS Wales to ensure it meets changing needs of population
Combine health and social care
Remove the ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men, and their female partners
Increase NHS spending in real terms every year over next five years
Re-establish minor injury units at Colwyn Bay and Tenby, and in the Rhyl/Prestatyn area
Cap weekly care costs for older people at £400, and protect £100,000 in capital assets for those in residential care
Introduce a "scores on the doors" hospital rating system
New £80m treatment fund for life-threatening illnesses
Double to £50,000 the amount of cash older people going into care can keep from the sale of their homes
Cut waiting times by "eliminating" unnecessary attendance at hospitals and GP surgeries
Prioritise mental health treatment, support and prevention services
Improved access to a GP
End discrimination against mental health by putting it on a equal footing with physical health
More nurses in hospitals
An independent NHS Commission to look at future health services
