Health secretary Wes Streeting committed to three ‘strategic shifts’ for the NHS which includes moving care from ‘hospital to community’.
The Labour Government also wants to shift the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ and from ‘treatment to prevention,’ Mr Streeting said this weekend.
At the same time, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed its appointment of Paul Corrigan, a Blair-era adviser who will work directly with Mr Streeting on his 10-year plan to reform the NHS.
In July, DHSC announced that the 10-year plan will be informed by a ‘rapid investigation’ into the state of the NHS, which has been led by Professor Lord Ara Darzi and is expected to be published on Thursday.
Over the weekend, ahead of the report’s publication this Thursday, the prime minister said the previous Conservative Government ‘broke the NHS’, leaving it in an ‘unforgivable state’.
In an interview with the BBC, Sir Keir Starmer also said Lord Darzi’s report will claim that current issues in the NHS stem from previous policy decisions, including ‘hopelessly conceived’ reforms by the Conservatives.
GP leaders from the BMA and RCGP have contributed to the Darzi investigation, warning about the risks to continuity of care, insufficient funding and rising ‘workload dump’ from other parts of the system.
Mr Corrigan, who developed the policy for foundation trusts during his previous tenure as health adviser, has been appointed to bring in ‘additional experience’.
DHSC said he will ‘work closely’ with the health secretary in a paid role to help ‘shape the Government’s 10-year plan and provide independent scrutiny of its structure and implementation’.
‘Paul’s arrival reflects the scale and complexity of the challenges facing the health and care system,’ the department added.
In July, before his appointment to DHSC, Mr Corrigan said that GPs should be given funding to keep people out of hospital in a new financial system that creates ‘savings’ for acute trusts.
In another Blair-era appointment, the health secretary has also brought back Alan Milburn, who spearheaded increased private involvement in the NHS, to support with reform.
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I’m so excited to see what Darzi (/Tony Blair) thinks is next to save the NHS and what’s in store for primary care..
More money for hospitals and saving hospital money
Most patients do have 20 digits, but the rest of the body is basically analogue, so the new NHS will not be compatibilty with 99% plus of each patient!
Nothing wrong with analogue. Let’s go back to normal.
Only use IT and digital for what it is good at, not for all the other 99% of the patient!
Streeting captured by the Tech Bros. As for prevention on a large scale, this is not an NHS remit.
More bureaucracy, more money, more of the same old.
Will fix nothing.
Dazi report recommendations:
1. Lots of expensive community diagnostic centres.
2. Refocusing primary care to Prevention away from Treatment – because this will save money, because fewer people will get diabetes, cancer, heart disease and dementia, and less people will need to be referred to hospital. People will stop getting old, fewer people will die and the country will save a fortune. Think how much money will be saved when nobody gets diabetes, heart disease, obesity or dementia. Nobody will get old and nobody will die. Kaaa..ching!
3. Care transferred out of hospitals into the community
4. Patients monitored remotely using AI and tech
5. People looked after in their home supported by cheap allied health professionals working from protocol designed by NICE
6. Bigger and better GP surgeries working at scale employing salaried “health care professionals”
7. Lots of AI
8. Lots of IT
9. Lots of health prevention
10. People living long health lives “in the community”
11. Lots and lots
12. Mr Dazi recommended for sainthood or prophet status or what ot..or at the very least a bronze statue somewhere
Care: devolved to “the community”
Control: consolidated and centralised in hospital
Nice one AB…good anticipation of Streeting’s three NHS “shits”.
…GPs?…uuuur who are they again? Oh yeah ‘bed rock of the NHS”
Some services have their own monitoring system such as the rail service who have the British Transport Police.
What we really need is not the GMC,NMC or CQC but the ‘ British NHS Police’.
These need on an urgent basis to apprehend what appear to be rapidly replicating and proliferating rogue NHS England , PCN and ICB managers but particularly targeting the marauding Baron, Baronesses , Lords, Dames or Sir’s etc. who are now rampant NHS report writing machines.
Damage limitation is the key but as the prisons are full and the current government policy is releasing current incumbents en masse, perhaps this particularly dangerous group of well-connected titled NHS report writing gentry needs an alternative form of control.
Generally, with this type of publicity seeking aristocratic personality, simply ignoring them and their reports is often the most effective strategy.