The Prime Minister opened
Cabinet by saying we've seen an unacceptable rise in antisemitism
on our university campuses, and Vice Chancellors will meet in
No10 this week to discuss the need for our universities to be
safe for our Jewish students
The Home Secretary then provided
an update on the encouraging latest legal migration statistics.
He said recent changes are clearly starting to take effect, with
the number of applications for dependants accompanying students
falling by almost 80%. The Prime Minister added that across the
largest three visa categories, skilled worker, health and care,
and study visas, applications are down by 24% on the same period
last year and set to fall further as the changes come fully into
effect showing that the plan is working.
The Health and Social Care
Secretary then provided a health delivery update. She set out the
government's plan to ensure that access to the NHS is faster,
simpler, and fairer. She said ambulance response times for heart
attacks and strokes are down 27% on a year earlier, 4-hour
A&E waits have improved despite record demand, waiting lists
have fallen 200,000 since September, the biggest five-month fall
in over a decade, outside of the pandemic, and the independent
NHS England say this would have been a further 400,000 had it not
been for strikes, meaning the government's target would have been
met without industrial action. The NHS app is now used by 75% of
adults, including more than 17,000 people who are over 90 years
old, with 3 million repeat prescriptions ordered every month, 90%
of trusts offer electronic patient records, and in the first
month of the new patient premium, 500 more dental practices have
started accepting new patients.
The Prime Minister summed up by
saying we are spending record amounts on the NHS, employing more
doctors and nurses than ever before, and delivering improvements
to waiting lists and response times. But we are also reforming
the NHS to increase productivity, improve access and choice
through schemes such as Pharmacy First, increase prevention
including through a smoke free generation, and delivering the
first ever Long-Term Workforce Plan to put the NHS on a
sustainable footing such that it can continue providing high
quality, swift and responsive healthcare for generations to
come.
