On Sunday, I spoke about the launch of change.nhs.uk and you can watch a clip from my interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg here.
When I became Health Secretary, I asked for a full and frank investigation into the state of the NHS. The findings should shock us all: it is in a critical condition. Anyone reading this who is stuck on a waiting list, struggling to get a GP appointment, or unable to find an NHS dentist will not be surprised. The fundamental promise of the NHS that it will be there for us when we need it, has been broken. But now we’ve received the diagnosis, it is time to write the prescription, to develop the plan to lift it off its knees and make it fit for the future.
For that, I need your help.
This week, the Prime Minister and I launched the biggest national conversation about our NHS since its inception and I want residents in Ilford to have their say. Whether you use the NHS or work in it, you see first-hand what’s great, but also what isn’t working. I need your insight and input to help turn the NHS around.
Because this is our chance to be generation that takes the NHS from its worst crisis in history, picks it up off its knees, and makes it fit for the future. To learn about the best of the NHS and take it to the rest of the NHS. To shift the focus of healthcare from hospital to community, from sickness to prevention, and from analogue to digital.
We all owe the NHS a debt of gratitude for moments in our lives when it was there for us or a family member. Now we all have the chance to repay our debt by joining this national conversation.
You can have your say at www.change.nhs.uk or by opening the NHS app.
