Substantial, sustained, adequately resourced efforts to repair the NHS are required. This has always been the key issue, and also applies to social care. It's a concern that “at this week’s Labour conference, government ministers trailed a big national conversation on the NHS’s future to take place alongside the 10-year plan.” The public are done with talking about challenges that have existed for decades – delaying and avoiding the core question of where the money will come from to deliver what’s required. Until we update the UK’s funding model for the NHS and social care, the problems will remain. Countries with better health and care systems operate a blended funding model (i.e. methods alongside tax to generate the funds required). Publicly owned, not-for-profit, without raising taxes, HEALTH FUND will enable the NHS to remain free at the point of use. The CARE FUND forming part of this integrated solution will allow us to establish a National Care Service, that could commence in Labour’s first term. It can be done – for more information and my contact details please visit: https://lnkd.in/e9dmXskn https://lnkd.in/eAeWiSjy #ukhealthandcarefundingsolved #healthmutual #uksocialcarefundingfixed
Chair, Nuffield Trust Chair, National Centre for Creative Health NED, Royal Devon University NHS Trust Emeritus Professor of Healthcare Improvement, UCL Recent past-chair RCGP
Great article by Sally Gainsbury exploring why we need to be clearer about what we want the NHS to achieve before we devise plans for reform. The ‘broken NHS’ metaphor serves a purpose as long as it doesn’t lead to calls to throw it away or patch it up. Substantial, sustained (and adequately resourced) efforts to repair it are required.
