David Oliver , consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine Berkshire davidoliver372{at}googlemail.comFollow David on Twitter @mancunianmedicThérèse Coffey, England’s new secretary of state for health and social care, has set out the details of her plan to improve NHS performance. So, any onus to improve terms and conditions would still fall on struggling care provider organisations. Apparently, by giving GPs “additional freedoms to recruit additional support staff”—which they already have, as part of government initiatives around integrated care systems. Serially anticipated but never arriving, the NHS workforce plan has become like waiting for Godot. Ultimately, Coffey’s much trumpeted firecracker of a plan to improve the NHS and position herself as the “patient’s champion” was partly a rebadging of existing plans, partly a damp squib.

Source: The Guardian September 23, 2022 19:16 UTC