Health secretary Wes Streeting gives a speech during a visit to Worcester City FC while on the General Election campaign trail, May 29, 2024
WES STREETING has declared in the right-wing Sun newspaper that the NHS is “broken” and that he will launch an investigation into the performance of the health service.
The health secretary said the probe will aim at “diagnosing the problem” so that the government can “write the prescription.”
It will be led by former health minister Lord Ara Darzi, who worked on the failed polyclinics scheme under Gordon Brown, which was slammed as a potential gateway to increased NHS privatisation.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
