Claim: Under the last Labour government, we had the longest sustained period of investment in the NHS since it was founded.
Fact-check: Satisfaction with the NHS peaked in 2010 - Full Fact
Verdict: labour governments from 1997-2010 increased health spending by more each year on average than any party apart from the conservatives between 1970 and 1974. the longest period of sustained increases in health spending since 1950 was from 1953-1969 under a number of different governments and political parties.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2018-07-06T00:00:00