With shocking scenes in emergency care as ambulances queue outside hospitals and patients are treated in corridors, it’s little surprise that the NHS crisis is rising to the top of the Westminster agenda 🔴 singharj, janemerrick23 and ChaplainChloe
With shocking scenes in emergency care as ambulances queue outside hospitals and patients are treated in corridors, not to mention a seven million long waiting list for elective treatment, it’s little surprise that the NHS crisis is rising to the top of the Westminster agenda.
The Prime Minister is due on Saturday to convene an “NHS Recovery Forum” with clinical leaders, health experts and ministers on these areas, including calls to share best practice and innovations in social care and delayed discharge, urgent and emergency care, elective care and primary care. Whilst she later tweeted that the shadow health team was “fully united”, the interaction exposed divisions that party insiders say have been brewing for some time.understands the two continue to meet regularly to work on policy and agree on many areas of reform – but Mr Streeting’s recent clash with the British Medical Association union of doctors exposed their different perspectives on how to handle the NHS workforce.
“I think it’s quite widespread,” they said. “You can see even amongst fairly right wingers they are trade unionists, a lot of them are members of Unison and the GMB, quite a few Unite, all of them have got members in the NHS and obviously the party membership is made up of people who believe profoundly in the NHS no matter how right the leadership has gone.
“That will I’m sure mean a level of structural reform, and Wes Streeting has hinted at that as well,” he says. And a former Conservative government adviser agrees that by scrapping the health and social care levy, and a plan for long-term reform of social care, a key problem has been left unsolved. This includes improving the pay offer for nurses, who have signalled a willingness to call off strikes if ministers agree to a compromise 10 per cent pay rise.
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