Lord Darzi, a pioneering surgeon and former Labour health minister, concluded the NHS is in a 'critical condition' in a damning new report. The report has led Keir Starmer to say the NHS must 'reform or die'.
. . . . . . . . . Keir Starmer is warning that the NHS must 'reform or die' today after a damning report found billions of pounds in extra investment has failed to boost performance.
He also criticised the British Medical Association - which doubles as regulator and industry body - for 'sabre-rattling'. Sir Keir Starmer will warn today that the NHS must 'reform or die' as he sets out plans for the 'biggest reimagining' of the service since its birth Read More Yes, the NHS is broken but Labour will turn it around, writes Health Secretary WES STREETING Lord Darzi, who now sits as an independent peer, said he was 'shocked' by the scale of the failings he unearthed.
'The NHS is at a fork in the road, and we have a choice about how it should meet these rising demands. Sir Keir will pledge to work on three fundamental areas of reform to make the NHS fit for the future. 'Second, we've got to shift more care from hospitals to communities... And third, we've got to be much bolder in moving from sickness to prevention.'
'We want to deliver high quality care for all but far too many people are waiting for too long and in too many clinical areas, quality of care has gone backwards.'We get caught up frantically trying to find beds that have been axed or using IT that is outdated or trying to work out how to get things done because operational processes are overwhelmed.
'We need to rebalance the system towards care in the community rather than adding more and more staff to hospitals.' He will say: 'People have every right to be angry. It's not just because the NHS is so personal to all of us - it's because some of these failings are life and death. 'Getting people back to health and work will not only reduce the costs on the NHS, it will drive economic growth - in turn creating more tax receipts to fund public services,' he will add.
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