Wes Streeting will promise to turn the NHS into a “neighbourhood health service”
as he launches a major consultation about the institution’s next decade.
Announcing the consultation on Sunday, Mr Streeting said: “If we want to save the things we love about the NHS, then we have to change it. The Department for Health and Social Care said this would stop patients “having to go from pillar to post” and enable them to be treated for minor injuries “without having to wait for hours in overstretched hospitals”.
They encountered stiff opposition from doctors and some patients who were concerned that they would end up having to travel further to see a GP, especially outside of major cities. The Royal College of Nursing welcomed plans to shift treatment from hospitals to communities, but general secretary Nicola Ranger said the NHS “simply does not have the nursing numbers to deliver it”.
“We were the only NHS profession to reject the Government’s pay award. Reforms must come with the investment needed to turn around nursing.”
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