Sir Keir Starmer has delivered a speech setting out his priorities for the NHS. He said the Labour Party would both invest in and reform the service, using digital technologies from integrated digital records to the NHS App. Meanwhile, health and social care secretary Steve Barclay was effectively forced to admit that the government will not deliver 40 ‘new’ hospitals by 2030.
But he argued technology could help to make the best use of existing capacity, by outlining plans to use the NHS website and NHS App to encourage patients to exercise ‘choice’ and pick providers with shorter waits for elective treatment.
