As winter illness hits the NHS, Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled the federal government’s plans to assist the service with a brand new partnership with the non-public sector.
Labour wish to get ready occasions for non-urgent care again all the way down to the goal of 18 weeks over the following 5 years, with Sir Keir saying the brand new association will imply “resources of private hospitals [are] more readily available to the NHS”.
The plan consists of the event of latest “community diagnostic centres”. Ashish Joshi, our well being correspondent, speaks to Niall from one of many new centres in a procuring centre in Wooden Inexperienced, north London.
Niall can also be joined by Dr Rob Findlay, a contributor to the Well being Service Journal and specialist in NHS demand and capability planning and ready occasions, to debate whether or not the plans will truly assist the service and its workers.
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