The NHS and Prevention

Wes Streeting repeats the Mantra of all Health Secretaries

The Labour Government wants to shift the NHS from ‘analogue to digital’ and from ‘treatment to prevention’. 

The PM, Keir Starmer, in a speech on the NHS at the King's Fund, said, “The NHS is uniquely placed for the opportunities of big data and predictive and preventative medicine,” and ”we’ve got to be much bolder in moving from sickness to prevention.”   

The rapid-fire Darzi report said it had diagnosed the NHS woes, and Darzi wrote in the Guardian that he had now found the cure: a “pivot to prevention.”

All of this has impressed the RT, Hon Wes Streeting. The new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care at the Institute for Public Policy Research said, “We will publish a 10-year plan early next year that will set out how we deliver three big shifts in the focus of the NHS: from analogue to digital, hospital to community, and sickness to prevention.” 

Speaking at the Labour Party conference today, Streeting said, “Without action on prevention, the NHS will be overwhelmed.” He’ll…