Keir Starrer has outlined a 10-year plan for the NHS, which is based on a shift from hospitals to Community Health Hubs, a renewed focus on prevention and a hug of the technology, which was ascertained as a possibly the last chance, to save the health service in its current form.
In a health center in Stratford, Ost -London, next to Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, who had not expected that he should appear, starrer insisted that this would be different from the long list of earlier NHS Revamps.
“We use the resources, we use the priorities and we have the determination to look through this,” he said. “In the end I really think that they are just Labor governments that can do this.
“I want people to look back in 10, 20, 30 years and say that this was the government that confiscated the moment and reformed the NHS so that it is suitable for the future.”
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The prime minister, a 165-page document that spoke as a rigider, published the extensive details of the plan, said the service in England that “only a disease service is a health service that is really preventive-primarily prevents diseases”.
This, he said, would rather focus on areas such as screening and early diagnosis as well as vaccinations and lifestyle-based measures such as pharmacy base loss services and measures for healthier food.
Another pillar, he said, would be, from a “hospital dominated” to another, which spoke out at community health centers such as those of him in order to reflect the gradual social shift of acute health crises into chronic, long -term illnesses.
“We will always need hospitals,” he said. “You will always be important for acute services. But the disease has changed and we have to change with it.”
The last focus, he said, would be based on a “really digital health service” based on Hi-Tech diagnostic and treatment options, but also on a gradually expanded NHS app, which, according to Starmer “like a doctor in your pocket and gives you 24-hour advice, seven days a week, an NHS that is really always there if you need it”.
The plan states that after years of neglect by the conservatives “in an existential edge”, and only the radical transformation of Labor prevent it from being supported as a pension model financed by the taxpayer.
It is said that Labor inherited an NHS last year, in which many people cannot see a family doctor or dentist, waiting lists have increased, the employees are demoralized and the results of killer diseases such as cancer less than in other countries.
“That’s why the NHS is now on an existential edge,” it says. Since the aging population causes more illness, “without change, this will nevertheless endanger poorer access and results – and even more will deregister and become private if you can afford it.
“You will be increasingly surprised why you pay so much tax for a service you do not use and erode the principle of solidarity that has maintained the NHS. We are sentenced to poor people.”
Health experts denied this analysis. Thea Stein, the managing director of Nuffield Trust, said: “The government is right with the serious problems that diagnosed it in the NHS, and largely in the vision that suggests to regain public faith. However, we do not agree to the prophecy of extinction.”
Although public satisfaction with the NHS had collapsed to only 21% and the patients were “dismayed” by the difficulty of access to care, financed support for their founding principles taxpayers, for all available and free of charge, added them free of use.
The plan does not clearly state how the proposed changes in the working method of the NHS are implemented, said Stein. “This plan contains a litani of initiatives and the conviction that they will be the buzzer of the NHS, with hardly any details about how the battered health service should deliver these changes.”
Before the Starrer, Streeting said that urgent changes were partially necessary to see the voices that the current model of the NHS on the abandoned, apparently alluding to reform UK, which previously talked about an insurance -based version.
“There were always those who whispered that the NHS is a load, too expensive, is inferior to the market, and today these voices become louder and use the crisis in our NHS to reduce it,” he said.
“We also know the consequences of failure. Therefore, we cannot afford to fail. In order to be successful, we have to defeat cynicism that says that nothing changes.”
Reeves only briefly came in the Commons, who triggered questions about their future, and said that the government’s fiscal discipline enabled the NHS to give more resources.