The Prime Minister will unveil 'radical' NHS reforms on Monday, aiming to tackle the record-long waiting lists. However, even with these changes, millions of patients will continue to wait for treatment for months.
Millions of people will continue to wait months for NHS treatment despite a series of ‘radical’ reforms to be unveiled by Keir Starmer on Monday. The Prime Minister will use a speech on health reform to pledge action on waiting lists which Labour strategists hope will revive his flagging political fortunes.
Measures include operating diagnostic centres in the community seven days a week, an improved NHS app to make it easier for patients to manage appointments and investment in new equipment and treatment centres. Sir Keir will hail the reforms as a ‘key plank’ in Labour’s bid to transform Britain. But a new target slipped out by Downing Street last night suggests that at least 35 per cent of all patients will continue to face waits of more than 18 weeks next year, down only slightly from the current figure of 42 per cent. The figures underline warnings from Wes Streeting yesterday that delivering Labour’s pledge to restore the 18-week standard by the time of the next election two years later will be a ‘big, tough challenge’. The health secretary said the NHS would ‘collapse’ like the retail chain Woolworths unless it embraces reforms designed to drag it into the 21st Century. Monday’s reforms will focus on speeding up medical tests and routine surgery to cut waiting lists which soared to record levels in the wake of the pandemic. GPs will be funded to work more closely with hospital doctors to help them deal directly with patients’ conditions rather than referring them to consultants. The Prime Minister and Chancellor visit a catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshir
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