Meet the candidates: Labour's Dr. Mark Hayes

Dr. Mark Hayes, Labour candidate for Selby & Ainsty

I am standing for Parliament because our NHS is at risk and I have the knowledge and experience that can help save it and get it fit for the future.

I have nearly 30 years’ experience as a doctor and for the past three years I have successfully led our local NHS, turning its finances around, so I am very aware of the financial pressures affecting the Health Service.

By 2020 the NHS will need £30,000,000,000 a year more than it has to spend.

The Chief Executive of the NHS hopes we can save £22,000,000,000 through efficiencies, but no health system anywhere in the world has ever succeeded in saving that amount of money.

To help you visualize the size of the challenge, if we converted money into time and £1 was a second then £30,000,000,000 would be 950 years.

I am very concerned about the future of the NHS and I think the British people should be too.

If you elect me as your MP, I will use my detailed knowledge of the workings of the NHS to ensure the right decisions are made in Parliament.

If you value the NHS please vote Labour on May 7th.