Labour consults on plan for major NHS restructuring

[Northerner]

Labour will flesh out how it would dismantle Andrew Lansley’s structural NHS reforms to bring more health provision back in-house, in a wide-ranging consultation on NHS restructuring under a future Labour government.

The shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said Labour had now rejected the possibility of working within the existing structures, calling them unfit for purpose, and said the party would consult in the coming months over how it could re-establish a universally public NHS.

The party is committing for the first time to a wholesale restructure of the health service. Overhauling NHS structures have traditionally been politically risky. The former Conservative health secretary Lansley generated controversy when he introduced sweeping reforms in his 2012 Health and Social Care Act.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/02/labour-consults-on-plan-for-major-nhs-restructuring

 

[mikeyB]

Well, they could do worse than restoring it to the way NHS Scotland works, but that would mean destroying CCGs, and at least two other management levels. That would free up loads of money for proper jobs like nursing and doctoring. And social care.

Any health service which in the last few months has recruited more managers than doctors or nurses needs to take a long hard look at the way it works.