Wes Streeting told to ‘fund the NHS properly’

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1. > The shadow health secretary has said would not be put off by “middle-class Lefties” who accuse him of “betrayal” for using the private sector to bring down waiting lists.

   Here’s to hoping the rhetoric and discourse might improve under a labour government, but then you have Wes here.

2. On one hand I’m somewhat hopeful that given how everything else is in this country at the moment, probably a shocking amount of money can and will be saved simply by shaking up the contracting and procurement procedures in the NHS system.

   At the same time folks like Streeting make me really very concerned Labour are going to be just as beholden as New Labour were to placating this imagined hyper-reactionary voter who barely exists outside the column inches of a select number of tabloid papers.

3. Wes Streeting is as scummy as the Tories, proper investment is what is needed. PFI is what’s f****d it… and almost everything else the public relies on.

4. I don’t think any UK politician of any party is going to be brave enough to stand up in front of the public and be completely honest about just how much more money the NHS is going to need to become functional again OR how much money is needed for social care going forward.

   We’ve got the newspapers crying now about how we’ve got the highest tax burden for X decades…. they’ve not seen anything yet IMO we’re all in for a bit of a shock.

5. We could also do with getting rid of some of the middle management bloat.

6. >France spends £40bn more per year on health care than we do. Germany spends around £73bn more than we do. We must catch up.

   Two countries where there is significantly greater private sector involvement in delivering healthcare, better outcomes and higher patient satisfaction. Why can we never have a mature discussion about the role of the private sector in health without it descending into ‘public pure private evil’?

7. Ah yes, told by campaigners and unions – not people who have any influence or control on the modern Labour Party.

8. NHS funding is a complete red herring. You’re not going to fix waiting times for emergency or non emergency care without fixing patient flow and you can’t do that without a functional social care system.

   It’s not just about preventing bed blocking with well pstients with no where to go, it’s about preventing them from having to go into hospital in the first place.

9. Sorry bro, best we can do is find the triple
   Lock instead

10. Will be voting lib dem or green or something instead of labour because of this chap

11. 20%? 30%? 50%? How much of our national budget should the NHS be?

12. Wes Streeting is not making a good showing of himself.

13. Yeah Wes, you stick it to those middle-class lefties you made up in your head.

    Salt of the earth he is, proper working class hero.

14. Im looking forward to after we get a Labour government, everyone will finally realise that there was no secret money being kept away from public services afterall. Nothing will improve when we switch parties – house prices will continue to rocket, money printing will continue unabated, nurses & teaches will continue to have below inflation pay rises. Only question is, will smug conspiracy theorists continue to talk about “austerity” ? Humza will now have to blame austerity on Labour.

15. Feel like I’m late to the party on the old NHS vs Private debate. Is there any benefit to be had from engaging with the private sector other than to cover a lack of capacity in the NHS? If the core benefit is capacity surely it makes more sense to just increase capacity within the NHS. I can’t imagine needing to out source privately is economically a better solution in the long term.

16. Honestly who is briefing this man??

    Like he could be winning on so many fronts here.
    But he’s been tweeting today about doctors not working weekends instead!

    If he really wants to encourage reform he should look at the ways the people who actually deliver the NHS (doctors, nurses, HCAs, lab staff and everyone else at the front line) are treated by the system and start to rectify that.

    This would actually start to make inroads into our NHS staff retention crisis which is a ticking time bomb for the UK.

    We have a system so focussed on looking after the patient it’s not able to look after the people who look after the patient and deliver the product.