We spoke to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting and asked him if he was prepared to think the unthinkable when it comes to the NHS?
We spoke to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and asked him if he was prepared to think the unthinkable when it comes to the NHS?I’ve made it clear that the NHS needs to reform or it will die. The NHS is going through what is objectively the worst crisis in its history. My first impression after a week in the Department of Health and Social Care is that it’s even worse than we thought.
’But you set yourself an impossible challenge because you said you’re going to end this begging bowl culture, in your words, of the NHS, your department, going cap in hand to the Treasury. But there’s a billion – multi-billion – pound backlog in capital investment. There are serious staff shortages.
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