Government calls on nation to share experiences and ideas to ‘help fix our NHS’
The British public and clinicians are being asked to share their experiences and ideas to “help fix our NHS”.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is calling on the entire country to help shape the government’s “10 Year Health Plan” with a “national conversation”.
Members of the public, NHS staff and experts are being invited to share their experiences, views and ideas on how the health service should move forward.
People can submit their ideas on change.nhs.uk or on the NHS app until the beginning of next year.
Mr Streeting, who was treated for kidney cancer in 2021, said the NHS “saved my life” and everyone owed the health service “a debt of gratitude”.
“Now we have a chance to repay that debt,” he said.
“Today the NHS is going through the worst crisis in its history. But while the NHS is broken, it’s not beaten.
“Together, we can fix it.
“Whether you use the NHS or work in it, you see first-hand what’s great, but also what isn’t working. We need your ideas to help turn the NHS around.”
NHS staff are also being asked to submit their ideas and experiences
The project is part of what the government is calling a shift “from hospital to community”.
It will include plans for new neighbourhood health centres where patients will be able to see GPs, district nurses, care workers, physiotherapists, health visitors and mental health specialists in the same place.
They also want to change the NHS “from analogue to digital” by putting all patient health information, test results and letters on the NHS app.
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New laws will be introduced, the government says, to make NHS patient records available across all NHS trusts, GP surgeries and ambulance services in England to speed up patient care, reduce repeat medical tests and minimise medication errors.
The government estimates NHS staff will save 140,000 hours every year as they will be able to access patient data quickly, giving them more time to spend with patients.
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As part of Labour’s plan to move “from sickness to prevention”, it is looking at opportunities to shorten the amount of time people are ill, and to prevent illnesses.
One of the options being considered is handing out smart watches and other wearable tech to patients with diabetes or high blood pressure so they can monitor their health at any time.
Sir Keir Starmer said the 10 Year Health Plan is a “huge opportunity to put the NHS back on its feet”.
“So, let’s be the generation that took the NHS from the worst crisis in its history and made it fit for the future,” he added.
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Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey urged the government to show “ambition” in its plans, or risk the consultation “becoming a talking shop”.
He said: “We know that primary care services across the country are at the brink of collapse due to the Conservative Party’s disgraceful neglect, with patients paying the price.
“Whether it is sky-high GP waiting lists, endless ambulance response times, or a failure to diagnose cancer in time, none of these issues can be fixed without fixing the crisis in social care.
“That is why the Liberal Democrats will make sure that social care is part of the debate and push for a cross-party solution to this crisis.”
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Rachel Reeves has hinted that taxes are likely to be raised this autumn after a major U-turn on the government’s controversial welfare bill.
Sir Keir Starmer’s Universal Credit and Personal Independent Payment Bill passed through the House of Commons on Tuesday after multiple concessions and threats of a major rebellion.
MPs ended up voting for only one part of the plan: a cut to universal credit (UC) sickness benefits for new claimants from £97 a week to £50 from 2026/7.
Initially aimed at saving £5.5bn, it now leaves the government with an estimated £5.5bn black hole – close to breaching Ms Reeves’s fiscal rules set out last year.
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Rachel Reeves’s fiscal dilemma
In an interview with The Guardian, the chancellor did not rule out tax rises later in the year, saying there were “costs” to watering down the welfare bill.
“I’m not going to [rule out tax rises], because it would be irresponsible for a chancellor to do that,” Ms Reeves told the outlet.
“We took the decisions last year to draw a line under unfunded commitments and economic mismanagement.
“So we’ll never have to do something like that again. But there are costs to what happened.”
Meanwhile, The Times reported that, ahead of the Commons vote on the welfare bill, Ms Reeves told cabinet ministers the decision to offer concessions would mean taxes would have to be raised.
The outlet reported that the chancellor said the tax rises would be smaller than those announced in the 2024 budget, but that she is expected to have to raise tens of billions more.
It comes after Ms Reeves said she was “totally” up to continuing as chancellor after appearing tearful at Prime Minister’s Questions.
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Why was the chancellor crying at PMQs?
Criticising Sir Keir for the U-turns on benefit reform during PMQs, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the chancellor looked “absolutely miserable”, and questioned whether she would remain in post until the next election.
Sir Keir did not explicitly say that she would, and Ms Badenoch interjected to say: “How awful for the chancellor that he couldn’t confirm that she would stay in place.”
In her first comments after the incident, Ms Reeves said she was having a “tough day” before adding: “People saw I was upset, but that was yesterday.
“Today’s a new day and I’m just cracking on with the job.”
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Sir Keir also told Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby on Thursday that he “didn’t appreciate” that Ms Reeves was crying in the Commons.
“In PMQs, it is bang, bang, bang,” he said. “That’s what it was yesterday.
“And therefore, I was probably the last to appreciate anything else going on in the chamber, and that’s just a straightforward human explanation, common sense explanation.”
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