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Mission Critical - The New Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s First Hundred Days

22 Jul 2024

In his time at Policy Exchange, the work of the Health and • None Of Our Business? – Considers the role of workplaces can Social Care Unit has been awarded ‘Health, science and medicine’ think- play in supporting the health of the nation – advocating fifteen tank of the year by Prospect Magazine. [...] This paper considers how the new ministerial team at The role of Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (shortened to ‘Health DHSC can approach the remainder of the ‘first hundred days’ in office Secretary’ throughout) has been described as “the toughest gig in politics” to make the most of that political capital – to establish momentum, – a phrase accurately describing the task before the. [...] The new Health Secretary – the 35th holder of the office since the the jargon), slightly down from September 2023 when the ‘waiting list’ com/politics/2020/may/17/whod-be-a- health-secretary-five-former-incumbents- foundation of the NHS – has made a good start, demanding the same ‘radical peaked. [...] professional group as a special case will merely amplify demands which will be made by other groups.45 Rhetorically, the new Health Secretary should take the opportunity This paper sets out the key priorities for the remainder of the ‘first to reset the relationship between the public and the health service and hundred days’ – in order to demonstrate progress in delivering upon between NHS staff a. [...] The Royal College of General where necessaru, driven by an appraisal of the evidence to ensure Practitioner’s and Royal College of Physicians are now both that it does achieve the aim of enhancing capacity across general recommending amendments to the NHS Loong-Term Workforce practice and improving the quality of care provided.131 Plan to downgrade and reduce commitments to expand the MAP The new.
Pages
26
Published in
United Kingdom

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