Wes Streeting: I will support the tax increases that are financing 8.3 million GP appointments
Streeting to Defend Tax Increase Amid Healthcare Investment Plans Wes Streeting is set to start advocating for the party’s tax increase on Tuesday, emphasizing the appointment of 8.3 million GPs to “end the 8 am scramble.” He argues that investment is unattainable without raising national insurance funds. The health secretary, known for his strong stance […]
Streeting acknowledges that Reform might become the primary opposition by the next election – UK politics update | Politics
Reform UK is gearing up to establish a task force aimed at scrutinizing spending in the councils it has taken control of, according to the party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf. “Take Lincolnshire County Council, for instance—while they don’t have anyone officially recognized as a ‘DEI officer,’ they do allocate significant funds towards diversity, equity, and inclusion […]
Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it | Wes Streeting
TThree sentences in Labour's 1945 manifesto contained a simple but historic promise: Money should no longer be your passport to the best treatment. A new National Health Service should have health centres, more and better hospitals, and a suitable environment for doctors and nurses so that the people can enjoy the best that modern science […]
As a doctor, I’m no apologist for Wes Streeting – but here’s where he’s right about the NHS | Rachel Clarke
GThe NHS's good old anonymous senior sources. They can always be trusted to tell you the truth. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. In their latest act of radical candor for patients and frontline staff, these secretive freelancers Report to the BBC On the growing concern over Wes Streeting's claims that the NHS […]
Cass review must be used as ‘watershed moment’ for NHS gender services, says Streeting | Transgender
Wes Streeting hopes the Cass review will be a turning point in the provision of health services to young people who are questioning their gender identity, but also explains why some transgender people are “scared” He said he understood. The Shadow Health Secretary said there was a “total failure” in the current state of health […]
Wes Streeting says Labour has been too nostalgic about NHS as he argues it needs reform not extra money – UK politics live | Politics
important events Jeremy Hunt could save £20bn in taxes after borrowing halved compared to last year The UK government's borrowing has halved over the past year, giving Jeremy Hunt room to cut taxes worth around £20bn in his March budget. larry elliott I will report. Prime Minister David Cameron says new US, UK airstrikes 'send […]