The NHS should respond well to Wes Streeting’s ministrations
The IndependentWhether Britain “needs an Elon” or not, as some are wondering, what it has got is a Wes. To ensure that “reform” is more than a mere mantra, Mr Streeting has chosen as his first initiative of many to focus on those responsible for running our NHS trusts. It’s worth asking, in this context, about how many serious scandals in, for example, maternity care and mental health provision could have been discovered sooner had there been more scrutiny brought to bear on trusts. He also has to carry the public with him on the increase in junior doctors’ pay – and show that it was essential to retain skilled staff and end the incessant strikes, not merely to appease “trade union paymasters”. He must also answer the misleading allegations from the hard right that too much money is spent on diversity, equity and inclusion, on translation services and on “health tourism” by non-UK residents.
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Wes Streeting plans mass expansion of GP services to tackle NHS staffing crisis
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Streeting puts failing NHS fat cats in firing line as he warns service is ‘living on borrowed time’
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Wes Streeting pledges to name and shame failing hospitals in league tables and sack underperforming NHS managers
Daily Mail
Wes Streeting launches crackdown to stop 'rip off' agencies charging NHS hospitals 'eye-watering sums' for temporary workers - as costs total £3billion a year
Daily Mail
Streeting vows Budget will put NHS staff ‘on front line, not the picket line’
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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Labour need to take action on the NHS and not just more talk
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Wes Streeting warned inflation busting NHS Budget deal will not be enough
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No more consultations – it’s time to operate on the sickly NHS
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Wes Streeting 'spooking' the sick and facing backlash over repeated claims that the NHS is broken, health leaders warn
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If Wes Streeting can save the NHS, he will be Keir Starmer’s obvious successor
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This is the NHS’s MeToo moment – and Wes Streeting is well placed to reform it
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It’s time to cut out the NHS middle man
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Wes Streeting: The Labour ‘poster boy’ out to shake up the NHS
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Wes Streeting: NHS won’t get any extra cash from Labour without major surgery
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NHS reform more important than ‘pouring’ money in, Labour’s Wes Streeting to say
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Wes Streeting: Labour must ditch its ‘rose-tinted nostalgia’ over the NHS
The Telegraph
Wes Streeting is right to want to reform the NHS – but how far would he go?
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Wes Streeting interview: Failures in the NHS mean I still don’t know if I’m clear of cancer
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