Four candidates are vying to become Epsom and Ewell’s MP as the UK goes to the polls on June 8.

This week, the Epsom Guardian will be introducing the candidates and sharing their views on health, education, the economy, the environment, and Brexit, as well as their local priorities.

Transport secretary Chris Grayling was the constituency’s most recent representative, before the dissolution of parliament relinquished MPs of their duties.

He will be defending a majority 24,443 against Labour candidate and train driver Ed Mayne, Liberal Democrat Steve Gee and the Green party’s Janice Baker.

Here are your four candidates’ views on health:

Chris Grayling, Conservative

Your Local Guardian:

“I support the Government's plan to increase spending on health by £8 billion in real terms over the coming Parliament to help meet the rising costs of the service.

“I am absolutely committed to an NHS which is free at the point of delivery.”

Ed Mayne, Labour

Your Local Guardian:

“I am proud to be a member of the party that founded the NHS on the principle that good healthcare should be available to all regardless of ability to pay.

“The Labour Party has always funded and improved the NHS and we currently face the planned secret review of the service in the so-called Sustainability and Transformation Plans.

“In Surrey we now have the case of a billionaire tax exile suing the NHS after losing out on a contract to provide children’s services in the county.”

Steve Gee, Liberal Democrat

Your Local Guardian:

“The country needs additional investment in health and social care as a matter of urgency.

“We cannot carry on lurching from one crisis to another, we have to address critical funding and capacity challenges.

“We will increase income tax by 1 per cent, raising around £6billion per year, which will be ring-fenced to be spent on the NHS, care services and public health.

“We will going forward wish to integrate health and social care services to drive efficiencies and prevent bed blocking.”

Janice Baker, Green

Your Local Guardian:

"Closing the NHS funding gap of £30billionn by 2020 doesn’t rest on cutting services and other ‘efficiency savings’ while government injects a paltry £4.5billion. 

"Green MPs are committed to ending the marketisation of the NHS, which has increased costs, led to fragmentation of services, and allowed private providers to cherry-pick profitable treatments.

"We would repeal the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and introduce an NHS Reinstatement Bill, as already brought to Parliament by Green MP Caroline Lucas. 

"The Bill would restore the obligation upon government to provide a comprehensive health service, free at the point of access, with full public accountability. 

"It makes sense to integrate health and social care, not only to save on costs but also to enable all of a person’s needs to be looked at together. 

"We would provide accessible, local community health centres that provide a wide range of services, including out-of-hours care.

"These would help people access healthcare quickly and would not be a replacement for GPs. 

"We see this as achievable with the input of health professionals and patients in shaping priorities and policies, giving equal attention to mental health services as to physical .  

"Funding must start with an immediate increase in the overall NHS budget of £12 billion a year, helped by increases in tobacco and alcohol taxes."

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