Wes Streeting said, “The NHS is letting people down,” in a speech this week at the Labour conference on the future of the country’s healthcare system.
During the speech, Mr Streeting unveiled some harrowing details about current NHS failures, including record-high deaths from cancer, long waiting lists, and low satisfaction rates.
Criticising the Conservative handling of the NHS, Mr Streeting maintained: “I won’t back down. The NHS is broken but not beaten and, together, we will turn it around.”
So, what were the key takeaways from his speech? Let’s take a look.
Wes Streeting has comitted to reforming the NHS
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1. The NHS will always be a free public service
Wes Streeting said it was always the plan of the Tories to gut the NHS and privatise it, to which he said: “Over my dead body”.
In his speech, he maintained that the goal was to improve services while making sure it’s a free …