Document demands repeal of 2012 legislation on automatic tendering of care contracts
NHS leaders want Theresa May to scrap Conservative legislation that forces the tendering of contracts for care, in a move which could dramatically reduce privatisation of key health services.
In the latest long-term plan, which maps out the NHS’s future over the next 10 years, Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, demands that the prime minister repeals significant key sections of the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Offering millions of patients online consultations with their GP via videolink software such as Skype, instead of face-to-face appointments in an effort to ease the pressure on family doctors.
One in three patients receiving care from newly enhanced community-based services rather than going to their local hospital for an outpatient appointment, which accounts for 30m clinic visits a year.
More money to help narrow stark inequalities in the health and life expectancy between wealthy and poor people.
Recruiting more staff from abroad in order to minimise the damaging impact of chronic NHS understaffing, which it says is “unsustainable”.
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