PM says new plan will ‘fundamentally rewire’ the NHS

Millions of patients will be treated closer to their homes in the plans to “fundamentally reclaim” the NHS in England, said the Prime Minister.

A new network of neighborhood health centers will be set up to move the care of hospitals and in the community.

Sir Keir Starmer said the NHS should “reform or die” and provide patients “easier, faster and more practical, wherever they live”.

But the Royal College of Nursing warned that the movement of overcrowded hospitals would be impossible without policies to stimulate the nursing labor “exhausted and undervalued”.

Sir Keir will use a speech in London later during the day to launch the government plan over 10 years for the NHS in England.

During the next decade, around 200 new neighborhood health centers will be set up, with a mixture of general practitioners, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, mental health specialists and other doctors.

The centers will finally be open 12 hours a day, six days a week, said the government.

The exact composition of the services will depend on the region, certain awareness teams with door-to-door to contact vulnerable and difficult to reach patients.

“This change is important, not only for the future of the NHS, but given the demography, it is really important for patients, their families and their communities,” said Sir Jim Mackey, new managing director of NHS England.

“We have a model that is built on the default value of hospitalization and it is simply not good for them.”

By 2035, the intention is that the majority of ambulatory care will occur far from hospitals, including many analyzes, mental health checks, eye exams and follow-up after surgery.

Local hubs could also offer additional services, including debt advice and employment support, as well as ceasing smoking and weight management courses, the government suggested.

The Secretary of Health, Wes Street, said that the plan would drop “devastating hospital waiting lists and prevent patients from going from pillar to publication to be treated”.

In April, 7.39 million people were waiting for an operation or another appointment planned in England.

Thea Stein, the director general of the reflection group Health, Nuffield Trust, said that the plan had the “good aspiration” but warned that getting closer to their home care “does not mean cheap care”.

“Let’s be without illusion: it is not a money economy measure,” she said.

“By simply saying that the approach will be deployed, without all the details on how to provoke it, throws doubt to find out if it will stay.”

The government said that the money to pay the new service would come from the increase of 29 billion pounds Sterling to financing the NHS announced in the last budget.

A new labor plan for the health service should be announced later this year, which will set objectives to recruit new employees to work in community care.

The Royal College of Nursing said that teams of district nurses and health visitors, who keep patients in safety and well at home, have dropped by thousands in the past 15 years in England.

And the British Medical Association, which represents the doctors, said that major questions remain on who will provide new services and how they will be funded.

“The limited workforce, which is already undervalued, should not be moved as parts on a chess or more hard work board,” said BMA council, Dr. Tom Dolphin.

The Royal College of GPS said it was concerned about the current state of many practices of general practitioners who have “an urgent need for renovation” and a lack of jobs for the newly qualified GPS.

Other measures of the plan, which covers more than 150 pages, include:

• GPS will be encouraged to use artificial intelligence (AI) to take patient notes, while technology will be introduced to accelerate the response of surgeries to surgeries
• Newly qualified dentists to be forced to work for the NHS for at least three years before moving on to private practice
• Dental therapists, which tend to carry out some of the simple work of dentists, to undertake controls, treatments and references

Matthew Taylor, Director General of the NHS Confederation, which represents the major NHS trusts, said that new health services in the district would need supported investments in digital buildings and infrastructure.

“The reality is that without the radical action described in this plan, the NHS as a universal service is unprecedented in danger,” he said.

Conservative deputy and secretary of ghost health, Edward Argar, said that the NHS needed “reform, not just more money” and warned that the work plan should be “real and deliverable for patients”.

Liberal-democratic chief Ed Davey said that all of the 10-year-old NHS strategy would be a “castle built on the sand” unless the ministers are tackling what he described as a “social care crisis”.