On Monday 21st October, the Government launched the biggest ever national conversation about the future of our NHS. After 14 years of Conservative neglect and mismanagement, the Labour government is taking immediate action to get the NHS back on its feet and fit for the future.
Yesterday, Monday 21st October, the government launched the biggest ever national conversation about the future of our NHS.
Days after coming into office, Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting ordered a full and independent investigation into the NHS that has since concluded that the NHS is in a ‘critical condition’. Having received the diagnosis of an NHS that is broken, but not beaten, we now need to develop the plan to lift it off its knees and make it fit for the future.
This plan cannot be top-down or led from behind a desk in Westminster. It must be built in partnership with the people who use our NHS, the staff who work in it, NHS leaders, health experts, industry, and the wider public.
That’s why the Government launched a consultation, for Ipswich and Suffolk residents to share their experiences of using the NHS- their frustrations, as well as their ideas for how to improve it- via the online platform Change.NHS.uk. The consultation will run for five months and is also available via the NHS app. There will also be in-person events across the country, as well as an option for people to send in their contributions by post.
This insight will inform the government's Ten Year Health Plan, due to be published in the Spring, which will deliver the unprecedented long-term reform needed to turn the NHS around.
That’s why it is absolutely vital that residents in Ipswich and Suffolk more widely share their ideas for the future of our NHS, to make sure our voice is heard.
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