This article discusses Health Secretary Wes Streeting's plans to reduce NHS waiting lists and his response to Elon Musk's comments.
We spoke to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting about the plans announced today to bring down waiting lists and the comments by Elon Musk.The crucial thing about today’s plan, it’s been launched with the NHS in partnership with the NHS . We’ve signed up to this together and we’ve made a number of commitments together to deliver not just the investment of the budget that was very welcome, but also the reform that the Prime Minister, the Chancellor and I all promised.
You promised a ten-year plan on the NHS. So far you’ve launched a national conversation. You promised to fix social care and you’ve now launched this commission which won’t report until 2028. You’ve been, in your job as Shadow Health Secretary, before your current job, since 2021. Why didn’t you come into office with a ready made plan for both of those things? Social care and the NHS. Could have got moving quicker.Well have you? It’s six months since you took power?We came in, we’ve hit the ground running. Within three weeks we’d ended the junior doctor strikes with a new resident doctors deal, which means this winter, staff are on the frontline, not on the picket line. Within weeks, we came in and found the funding for an additional 1000 GPs to be employed on the frontline by this April – hundreds already recruited. The rest to follow in the coming weeks. It’s why the Chancellor put in almost £2 billion to deliver on the first step we promised, of ramping up those 40,000 more appointments, 2 million more appointments a year to cut waiting lists. People will be able to judge in July, the 1st anniversary of the Labour Government, whether or not we delivered on that pledge. But I can tell you we’ve been ramping right up to deliver it and I’m confident we’ll get there.But Social Care, the Social Care Commission won’t report until 2028. You’re not hitting the ground running on that, are you? You could have implemented one of the other reports, many reports that have been launched before on thi
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