Innovation is also critical to improving performance, the health secretary says after an NHS summit, with 'virtual wards' and a new service for people who've fallen over potentially saving 55,000 ambulance call-outs a year among the ideas being looked at.
Today Number 10 was the location for a special 'Saturday school' with Rishi Sunak as the sole student.
Government sources claim part of the PM's NHS education came from his own extended family who work in the health service: they told him all about its myriad problems over the Christmas break. Today's 'Saturday summit' was about solutions for the long term but the immediate problem for the NHS remains strikes.
The danger of that strategy is if his plan doesn't work, the PM will end up being the face of that failure. "These are difficult problems to fix though, so I think it's unlikely we'll have it sorted by the end of this winter," he said.
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