We spoke to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting after and began by asking why the government didn't arrive in power already in possession of a 10-year plan, and if they will have wasted a year in office before taking action.
We spoke to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting after and began by asking why the government didn’t arrive in power already in possession of a 10-year plan, and if they will have wasted a year in office before taking action.Firstly, we’re not wasting time. We’ve hit the ground running. We ended the junior doctor strikes within weeks of coming into office. We’ve put in place the funding to employ 1,000 more GPs onto the frontline.
The reason why we’re embarking on the biggest national conversation in the history of the NHS is because I think, and the prime minister thinks very strongly, that when it comes to reforming public services, you shouldn’t do it to people, you should do it with people. And within the NHS and the millions of people who use it, is a huge amount of experience and expertise we want to draw from.
I wish I could sit here and tell you that in the first winter of a Labour government we could just abolish corridor care and no one would be on trolleys in corridors. There’ll be people on trolleys in corridors today and there will be throughout the winter.
Obesity costs us three times as much as smoking. So the argument I’m making isn’t that we’re going to jab the unemployed to get them back to work. The argument I’m making is we’re going to tackle obesity because in doing that, we are less likely to be seeing people off work, off sick. And I think this medication could make a real difference for people. But we’re proceeding in an evidence-based way. I say to people, forget the headlines for a minute, no offence to your profession.
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