Summary
This report by The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change sets out an action plan to save the NHS this winter. It highlights the pressures the health service faces, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, including a resurgent flu epidemic, the effect of the cost-of-living crisis, the unprecedented elective-care backlog and a depleted and exhausted workforce.
The authors call for the Government to immediately:
- focus leadership
- minimise demand on the service
- improve patient flow and efficiency
- maximise capacity.
Content
The report proposes twelve actions to help stem the crisis facing the NHS:
Focus Leadership
1. Set up a winter-crisis taskforce and settle additional funding early.
Minimise Demand
2. Campaign for widespread and early Covid-19 and flu vaccinations across the NHS workforce.
3. Extend public-facing Covid-19 and flu-vaccination strategies to all those aged over 18.
4. Mandate FFP2/3 face-mask wearing for NHS staff in health-care settings.
5. Be prepared to reintroduce the mandating of mask wearing on public transport and in confined spaces.
Improve Patient Flow and Efficiency
6. Improve the speed and consistency of access to primary care.
7. Roll out technology to release capacity and manage patient demand.
8. Increase support for social-care services and expedite patient discharges.
9. Identify and enable the flexible use of regional surge capacity.
Maximise Capacity
10. Stand up a volunteer and reservist workforce.
11. Expand use of private-sector capacity.
12. Prioritise staff retention.
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