Cancer diligent Denise Clarke, 60, praised Rachel Reeves's pledge to bring down NHS waiting lists.
Denise, from Lewisham, South London, has been reliant connected the wellness work aft being diagnosed with kidney crab successful August 2023. The mother-of-four had to discontinue her Asda supermarket occupation arsenic a effect and is present reliant connected Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment handouts.
Denise said: "I deliberation it's a just fund nether hard circumstances. Money successful the NHS and schools is captious due to the fact that the concern is conscionable dire, and wellness and acquisition truly matters. Putting up tobacco, brushed portion taxes and vaping taxes doesn't fuss maine successful the slightest.
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Philip Coburn)"Ideally, I would privation her to person gone further to assistance radical connected benefits. For me, there's thing near aft gas, electric, assembly taxation and h2o bills. But I bash person immoderate sympathy due to the fact that there's conscionable not capable wealth to spell astir due to the fact that of this £22bn achromatic hole."
Denise, who is being treated astatine London's Guy's and St Thomas's hospitals, underwent an cognition to region cancerous insubstantial successful May. But she was fixed a follow-up assignment adjacent March. She besides needs different scan but is inactive waiting for a date.
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Philip Coburn)Denise welcomed the Chancellor's £25bn currency injection successful the NHS and a committedness to present an other 40,000 elective appointments per week She added: "I've seen however atrocious things are successful the NHS archetypal hand.
"The attraction has ever been superb but the doctors and nurses are rushed disconnected their feet. They are perfectly overworked. So I invited them making the NHS a priority."