Rishi Sunak has told health leaders that a “business-as-usual mindset won’t fix the challenges we face”. Meanwhile critics said the discussions were a “talking shop” that will fail to ease pressure on frontline services after years of underinvestment.
Rishi Sunak has urged health leaders at an emergency meeting to take “bold and radical” action to alleviate the winter crisis in the NHS.
Health Secretary Steve Barclay has meanwhile suggested a “constructive approach” to pay negotiations with striking health workers, with increases on the table if the unions will agree to efficiency savings to make higher salaries more “affordable”. Mr Barclay earlier pledged to take further steps to “improve the flow through our hospitals” on Monday, with around 13,000 NHS beds blocked by delays in discharging payments.The Sunday Times reported that an emergency winter pressure package will include a hospital discharge fund for thousands of NHS patients to be moved to care home beds.
England’s chief medical officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty and NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard were among those summoned to No 10 for a rare weekend meeting. “I think we need that same bold and radical approach now because a business-as-usual mindset won’t fix the challenges we face.”
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