10-year NHS plan: summary of the key points
The government's line since then has been that the NHS must 'reform or die'. Its long-awaited ten-year plan will now attempt to breathe life back into the faltering service, providing a 'reformed, modernised and renewed' approach to healthcare in Britain.
Reform, Labour has said, revolves around three pillars: moving care into communities, digitising the service and preventing sickness. Here are the key points of the plan that promises to 'fundamentally rewire' the health service.
A recurring theme of the ten-year plan launch was patient empowerment. The reforms will deliver 'power and control in [patients'] hands', Starmer told NHS staff in Stratford on Thursday.
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