Wes Streeting will speak at the Labor Party conference on Wednesday. Photo: Anthony Devlin/Bloomberg
The NHS will go bankrupt without reform, Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting will reveal on Wednesday.
As the Labor Party conference in Liverpool closes, the Opposition Leader will vow to “turn the National System around” healthcare upside down,” saying that continuing to pour water is wasteful. money into a system that doesn't work.
Mr Streeting will say a Labor administration will focus much more on society and preventing ill health, arguing that the fundamental problem with the NHS is that it » it reaches people too late.”
Without significant reform, the future of the NHS is unsustainable, he will say.
“Don't doubt the scale of the problem. In the long term, the problem of rising chronic disease coupled with an aging society threatens to bankrupt the NHS,” Mr Streeting warns.
“Reform is better than investment”
The MP is expected to say reform will make a big difference role than investment in rebuilding the NHS and delivering greater value to taxpayers.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that half of the entire public sector plans to employ workers in the NHS by 2036. The share of the department's total spending on health care this year will be 42 percent and is expected to rise.
Mr. Streeting is expected to tell the conference: «Pumping ever-increasing amounts of money into a broken system is a waste of money.» in every sense.
“It’s a waste of money that we don’t have. A waste of time that is running out. It's a waste of potential because the NHS has a lot of room to do that.»
Promising Labour's reform program will deliver better care for patients while making better use of taxpayers' money, Mr Streeting will promise to «turn things around». The National Health Service has been turned on its head.»
“When I look at leading health systems around the world, the fundamental problem with the NHS is clear: we have an NHS that reaches people too late,” he says. must say.
The speech will detail commitments to tackle the NHS backlog of more than two million extra operations, scans and visits a year on evenings and weekends, and £1.1 billion in payouts to staff for overtime work.
“Reform is more important than investment”
Labor has pledged to double the number of NHS scanners and buy artificial intelligence scanners that are 35 percent faster to diagnose patients earlier
The party says the plans will cost a total of £1.6 billion sterling and will be paid for by removing non-resident tax status, which allows people living and working in the UK to pay taxes abroad.
“Achieving our mission will take time, investment and reform. Reform is even more important than investment, Mr Streeting will say.
The MP said on Tuesday the party needed to be “shaken out of its rosy nostalgia” and confronted with the “appalling” state of the NHS.
Mr Streeting said he had worked to convince his colleagues of the need for reform and warned the health service had “never been in a worse state” than it is now.
p>He said opposition from colleagues trying to stop reforms was like “a red rag to the bull”, promising to fight for an overhaul of the system.
“I had to convince people that reforms necessary,” he said at a side event organized by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
“I have deliberately sought to rid the party and the country of some rose-colored nostalgia and sentimentality. about the National Health System so that we can assess its current state,” he said.
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