Wednesday 22 October 2014

How to save the NHS in just 50 pages

How to save the NHS in just 50 pages The Five Year Forward Review is the NHS's own answer to whether it can survive as a unique system of healthcare.

Simon Stevenss arrival as NHS Englands new boss on 1 April was greeted with great warmth and relief across the service. In some quarters he was regarded almost as a messiah the man who had come back into the fold, after 10 years in US private healthcare, to rescue the NHS from its crisis of unsustainability. He saved us once before, in 2000, with the NHS Plans extra billions and extra staff, so hes the one to do something similar again, they thought.

Stevens deliberately did not administer any immediate quick fixes or announce headline-grabbing initiatives. He told the health select committee in April he would set out his thoughts about how to meet the challenges facing the service ageing, integration with social care, modernisation of primary care, lifestyle-related illnesses, and much more within six months. Continue reading... The Guardian

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