Wes Streeting: NHS won’t get any extra cash from Labour without major surgery

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Wes Streeting has warned that the NHS will get no extra funding from Labour without “major surgery” or reform, together with extra use of the non-public sector.

The shadow well being secretary insisted he wouldn’t be postpone by “middle-class Lefties” who cry “betrayal” over utilizing the non-public sector to convey down ready lists – including he was “up for the fight” with NHS unions.

It is the newest in a collection of daring statements concerning the well being service by Mr Streeting, who mentioned Labour will solely give the NHS an extra £1billion kilos if medics work weekends to make sure extra sufferers are seen.

He wrote in The Sun: “The NHS is a service, not a shrine. It is judged by how well it serves the public, not how heavy a price we’re paying for failure.”

Mr Streeting doubled down on his feedback throughout an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, telling the present: “There’s a principled argument here, which is that those who can afford it are paying to go private, are being seen faster, and their outcomes and their life chances and their quality of life will be better. Those who can’t afford it are being left behind. And those tend to be people from working class backgrounds like mine, and I think that’s a disgrace.”

He additionally mentioned that the “howls of outrage” from those that are involved about NHS privatisation are “water off a duck’s back” as a result of: “I don’t think I could look someone in the eye who’s waiting for months and months, sometimes over a year in pain and agony for treatment, and tell them that they should wait longer because my principles trump their timely access to care.”

Quizzed about whether or not it was proper to jot down for The Sun, he mentioned he made “make no apology whatsoever for making sure that the widest possible audience is hearing Labour’s alternative especially on one of the biggest crises facing our country, which is the crisis in the NHS.”

The shadow well being secretary has lengthy been a staunch proponent of NHS reform and has made it clear that Labour will take a preventative strategy to healthcare in a bid to cut back demand on the NHS.

Labour has repeatedly mentioned they won’t make any unfunded spending pledges and that shadow ministers should take into account reform earlier than cash because of the UK’s financial woes.

Mr Streeting was lately critcial of the NHS, calling it a “20th century service that hasn’t changed with the times and isn’t fit for the modern era” and that “If the NHS doesn’t change, it will die.”