Thursday briefing: Labour is betting on an NHS overhaul to deliver real change, but can they pull it off?
In today’s newsletter: With no new funding and a workforce already stretched, questions loom over whether ambition alone can overcome a system in crisis
Good morning. Wes Streeting’s first statement as health secretary was a startling one. Just a day after Labour’s historic election triumph, he declared that “the NHS is broken”. Now, almost exactly a year later, he returns with a 10-year plan to fix it, in what’s been billed as the most ambitious health reform agenda in a generation.
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this moment. Reforming the NHS was central to Labour’s election manifesto, and last year prime minister Keir Starmer made the consequences clear: “Reform or die,” he warned, and with it, staked the next election on his government’s ability to deliver meaningful change.
UK politics | Downing Street has said Rachel Reeves will keep her post and has not offered her resignation, after the chancellor was seen in tears at prime minister’s questions.
US news | The federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs reached its conclusion on Wednesday, with the jury finding the music mogul guilty on two charges The government has said that it will seek the maximum 20-year sentence.
UK news | Detectives investigating the former nurse Lucy Letby have passed evidence to prosecutors alleging she murdered and harmed more babies, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed on Wednesday.
US military | Iran’s nuclear program was set back roughly one to two years as a result of the US strikes on three key facilities last month, according to an assessment by the Pentagon.
Covid inquiry | Discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes during the Covid crisis was the “least worst decision”, the former health secretary Matt Hancock has told a public inquiry.
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By Aamna Mohdin
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In today’s newsletter: With no new funding and a workforce already stretched, questions loom over whether ambition alone can overcome a system in crisis
Good morning. Wes Streeting’s first statement as health secretary was a startling one. Just a day after Labour’s historic election triumph, he declared that “the NHS is broken”. Now, almost exactly a year later, he returns with a 10-year plan to fix it, in what’s been billed as the most ambitious health reform agenda in a generation.
It’s hard to overstate the significance of this moment. Reforming the NHS was central to Labour’s election manifesto, and last year prime minister Keir Starmer made the consequences clear: “Reform or die,” he warned, and with it, staked the next election on his government’s ability to deliver meaningful change.
UK politics | Downing Street has said Rachel Reeves will keep her post and has not offered her resignation, after the chancellor was seen in tears at prime minister’s questions.
US news | The federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs reached its conclusion on Wednesday, with the jury finding the music mogul guilty on two charges The government has said that it will seek the maximum 20-year sentence.
UK news | Detectives investigating the former nurse Lucy Letby have passed evidence to prosecutors alleging she murdered and harmed more babies, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed on Wednesday.
US military | Iran’s nuclear program was set back roughly one to two years as a result of the US strikes on three key facilities last month, according to an assessment by the Pentagon.
Covid inquiry | Discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes during the Covid crisis was the “least worst decision”, the former health secretary Matt Hancock has told a public inquiry.
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By Aamna Mohdin
Thursday briefing: Labour is betting on an NHS overhaul to deliver real change, but can they pull it off? to Continue reading...
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