Cowper’s Cut 346: Why the NHS NatChat shows that the Government’s health policy is missing (27 October 2024)

Summary

This blog looks at what the Government's decision to launch a national conversation about the NHS—called 'Change NHS'—says about its wider health policy. Andy Cowper, Editor of health Policy Insight, highlights three key areas that the author believes the Government should focus on in order to tackle the problems facing the health service:

1. An urgent ‘Fireman Sam’ bucket of improvements that are needed to stop things all over the English NHS being 'on fire'.
2. Rebuilding and restoring credibility to the management systems and structures.
3. Building the future.