Streeting insists NHS must change or go bust
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, October 11, 2023
WES STREETING threatened the NHS today by insisting it must either change or go bust.
The shadow health secretary told the Labour Party conference in Liverpool that rising chronic disease and an ageing population could “bankrupt the NHS,” in a speech that sparked clashes with the representatives of health workers.
Mr Streeting made clear that, in his view, the answer is not more funding: “Reform is even more important than investment.
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