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How is this news? Of course there will be disruption when you’re trying to fix the absolute shit show the Tories left. All the whining I hear about Labour ignores the fact they’ve been in power for months. The Tories raped the NHS for 14 years.
I work in the NHS and I’m not a fan of these plans. It feels too blunt and unplanned an approach.
A couple of months ago Streeting said no major reform of the NHS, and it’d distract from fixing front line problems. Then he suddenly decided to merge NHS England with the DOH, to slash duplication and save money.
Suddenly now it’s abolish NHS England entirely and also close “100s more health quangos”.
These stories honestly feel more like they’re targeting keeping telegraph and mail voters happy rather than actually fixing the NHS.
Cutting 25000 jobs and closing agencies isn’t fixing the problem: demand is going up and up for health and social care. Either cut demand or increase capacity. But that means unpopular choices like small charges to use GPs, finea for abusing ED or higher taxes, or even a public health insurance system.
Streetings plan sounds bold but its just more tinkering to avoid the actual solutions.