The NHS chief Amanda Pritchard has said the health service was ‘struggling’ but was not destroyed and that the next government needed to take action to stop it becoming an expensive safety net.
Speaking at the NHS Expo Conference Pritchard, said the UK needs to decide what kind of society, and NHS, we want.
“We can be the generation who solve the challenges of the future,” she told delegates.
“The time to think big and be radical is now.”
‘The post-covid NHS is struggling’ but we ‘must not collude with defeatism“ she said
In a wide ranging speech she said that pilots of new ways of working for GP practices – modelled on the Fuller Stocktake – will be ‘integral to the future of the NHS’, and insisted on the need to develop primary care with a modern vision,
