Sir Keir Starmer vows to fix ‘broken NHS' by dragging it ‘from bricks to clicks' in a technological revolution
NHS TECH BOOST Sir Keir Starmer vows to fix 'broken NHS' by dragging it 'from bricks to clicks' in a technological revolution
SIR Keir Starmer has vowed to fix the 'broken NHS' by dragging it 'from bricks to clicks' in a technological revolution.
The Prime Minister and his Health Secretary Wes Streeting said an NHS app and local medical centres will transform healthcare.
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Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to fix the 'broken NHS' by dragging it through a technological revolution
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Launching a ten-year health plan yesterday, they said it was 'change or bust'.
Focus will be pulled out of expensive hospitals and into community health clinics, at-home care and online booking and chat systems.
Experts hailed their ambitions but warned the changes will take time and money, and that similar plans had failed.
Sir Keir said: 'We need to make the NHS fit for the future with technology that is available to us now.'
The 168-page plan said the NHS must stop being a 'technological laggard' and 'make the move from bricks to clicks'.
Sir Keir added: 'Entire industries have reorganised around apps — retail, transport, finance, weather — why not the NHS?
'It will be like having a doctor in your pocket, providing you with 24-hour advice, seven days a week.'
Health Secretary Mr Streeting said: 'People will feel the change over the course of this Parliament and of course this is also a plan for the decade.
'We know the change in our plan is possible because it's already happened.
'We toured the length and breadth of the country and scouted the world for the best examples of reform.
'We will take the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS.'
Keir will ABOLISH NHS England to bring health service 'into heart of Government'
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Labour launched a ten-year health plan yesterday
Wes: Half of our MPs on fat jabs
By Sam Blanchard
HALF of Government MPs are using fat jabs and boast about it at work, Wes Streeting claimed yesterday.
The Health Secretary said injections such as Wegovy and Mounjaro are 'the talk of Commons tea rooms'.
He vowed to make them available from the NHS online, in pharmacies or in shopping centres as part of his ten-year health plan.
Mr Streeting said: 'Weight-loss jabs are the talk of the House of Commons. Half my colleagues are on them and are judging the rest of us saying, 'You lot should be on them'.
'I'm bringing to weight loss jabs the principle of fairness. They should be available based on need and not the ability to pay.'
They cost up to £200 a month, bought at chemists.
Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries admit using them.
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