Extract from oral answer (Lords) on Commonwealth Fund Report: NHS Ranking - Sep 14
Wednesday, 15 September 2021 07:36
Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con): I hope my noble friend has seen
recent reports from NHS doctors in the Daily Mail and elsewhere
about the slowness of the NHS to embrace obvious change. Does he
think that there are sufficient resources such as GPs, hospital
doctors, nurses and medical equipment, to allow the new money being
made available announced last week—for which, thank you—to be spent
effectively, thereby lowering waiting times? I worry that it will
just boost pay cheques, as we saw...Request free trial
(Con): I hope my noble friend has seen recent
reports from NHS doctors in the Daily Mail and elsewhere about the
slowness of the NHS to embrace obvious change. Does he think that
there are sufficient resources such as GPs, hospital doctors,
nurses and medical equipment, to allow the new money being made
available announced last week—for which, thank you—to be spent
effectively, thereby lowering waiting times? I worry that it will
just boost pay cheques, as we saw under a previous
Administration.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health
and Social Care () (Con): My
Lords, I take my noble friend’s point: there are hot spots of
innovation and change in the NHS, of which we should be proud, but
she is right that the NHS is a large organisation and change can be
challenging. In particular, I pay tribute to the Office for Life Sciences the
Accelerated Access Collaborative and NHSX—three organisations
within the NHS that are driving change. I also pay tribute to the
People Plan, which is putting innovation at the centre of the
culture within the NHS. I agree with my noble friend that more can
be done in this area.
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