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Health secretary Wes Streeting addresses the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 25, 2024
WES STREETING was criticised today for using his Labour conference speech to declare the “broken” NHS was “letting people down.”
The Health Secretary claimed “protecting the reputation of the NHS above protecting patients” was “killing it with kindness.”
Mr Streeting announced the government would be sending “crack teams of top clinicians” to hospitals nationwide, rolling out reforms to treat more patients and cut waiting lists, with the first 20 in areas with the highest numbers of people off work sick.
The Labour government must deliver on its commitment to bring back privatised services into the public sector. This not only saves money but also creates accountability and generates wider social benefits, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
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