Wes Streeting will launch on Monday a “national discussion” about the future National Health Service which, he claimed, was in an “awful state”. Streeting called on experts, clinicians and the public to submit their ideas for a “10-year Health Plan”, to rebuild the NHS to “be fit for the future”. The public will be asked for their ideas via an online platform, change.NHS.uk, which will launch at the beginning of next year.
The announcement coincides with the Treasury’s real-term funding increase for the Health Department in its Budget and Spending Review on October 30, which is equivalent to an injection of cash worth billions. Many other departments, such as local government, justice, and transport, have complained about the tight budgets around .
While health officials have said that the “mood” of the government is “positive” regarding an increase in the NHS budget they are also watching to see if there will be a rise in employer National Insurance contributions.
One health official stated that the NHS, as the largest employer of the country, would need to pay extra costs. The government plans to increase revenue budgets for 2025-2026. However, it will also give money back.
Streeting said the exercise of public engagement would help shape the 10 year plan that will be published next spring. Streeting said that his top three priorities were to improve primary care within communities, to move “from analog to digital”, and to prevent disease in the first instance.
The Health Secretary said that the first priority was to build new neighbourhood health centers closer to peoples’ homes, where they can see GPs and district nurses in one location, as well as care workers, physiotherapists, or health visitors. He said that the move to digital involves bringing together one patient record via the NHS app and systems that can share this data more easily.
In addition, the government is working to prevent disease by giving out “smartwatches and other wearable technology” to patients so they can monitor their conditions like diabetes or high bloodpressure from home. Streeting and the London Ambulance Service chief executive will launch a new online platform in a health center in east London.
Sky News reported on Sunday that the Health Secretary had agreed to a budget for health care with Rachel Reeves. He said, “I have settled with the chancellor but we won’t fix 14 years of Tory government in one budget.” Reeves said at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that she was hoping to find more money for the Health Service, which an ally called her “number-one priority.”
Streeting, however, said that the NHS needed “fundamental changes” and extra financial investments: “It is really in a terrible state at the present,” he stated. The report attributes the poor state of the healthcare system to austerity measures of the 2010s that cut public spending to reduce the deficit.
The study found that England has spent nearly £37bn (£26bn) less on health infrastructure and assets than other countries since 2010.
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