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Health Secretary announces probe into state of the NHS
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.
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