Getty imagesIn England, millions of patients will be treated close to the house as part of a plan to “resume NHS originally”, the Prime Minister has said.
A new network of neighboring health hubs will be established to take care of hospitals and community.
Sir Kire Stmper said NHS needs “improvement or dying” and “wherever they live,” provide patients with “easy, sharp and more convenient care”.
But the Royal College of Nursing warned that the services going out of crowded hospitals would be impossible without policies to promote the “nursing and underwellude” nursing workforce.
Sir Kir will use a speech in London today to launch a 10 -year plan for NHS in England.
In the next decade, approximately 200 new neighborhood health centers will be set up, which will be taken from a mixture of GPS, nurses, social care workers, pharmacists, mental health experts and other medics.
The government said that the Center will finally be open six days 12 hours a week.
The exact makeup of services will depend on the local area, going to the door-to-door to contact weak and hard-to-wheel patients with some outreach teams.
Sir Jim McKay, the new CEO of NHS England, said, “This innings is important, not only for the future of NHS, but also for demographics, it is really important for patients, their families and their communities.”
“We have a model that is built on the hospitalization default and it is not right for them.”
By 2035, the intention is that most outpatient care will be away from hospitals, including many scans, mental health check -ups, eye examinations and follow -up appointments after surgery.
Local hubs can also offer additional services including loan advice and employment assistance, as well as stop smoking and weight management classes, the government suggested.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that the plan would “bring down the waiting list of disastrous hospital and stop patients going to post from pillar for treatment”.
By April, 7.39 million people were waiting for an operation or another planned appointment in England.
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Thia Stein, the chief executive of the Health Think Tank The Nafield Trust, said that the plan had “the right aspiration”, but warned that the care that closer to the house does not mean “cheap care”.
“Let’s have no illusion: it’s not a way to save a money,” he said.
“Just saying that without complete information that the approach will be rolled, it is suspected whether it will stick.”
The government said that the money to pay for the new service would come from £ 29bn boost, which will be for NHS funding announced in the previous budget.
A new workforce plan for healthcare is expected to be declared at the end of this year that will set a target for recruitment of new employees to work in community care.
The Royal College of Nursing said that the teams of district nurses and health visitors, who keep patients safe and well at home, have declined by thousands of people in the last 15 years in England.
And the British Medical Association, which represents doctors, said that big questions remain about who will do any new services and how they will be funded.
Chairman of BMA Council, Dr. Tom Dolphin said, “The limited workforce, which are already feeling underwelled, should not be taken on the chess board like pieces or made to work even more hard.”
The Royal College of GPS stated that it was concerned about the current status of many GP practices that “there is a dire need for renewal” and lack of jobs for neo-qualified GPS.
Other measures of the plan, which lasts for more than 150 pages, include:
- GPS should be encouraged to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to take patient notes, while technology will be introduced to speed up the answer of the call for surgery
- New-qualified dentists must be forced to work for NHS for at least three years before going into private exercises
- Dentists, who do some direct work of dentists, to check-up, treat and referral
Matthew Taylor, CEO of NHS Federation, who represents large NHS trusts, stated that the health services of the new neighborhood would require continuous investment in buildings and digital infrastructure.
“The reality is that without the radical action mentioned in the scheme, NHS is in unprecedented threat as a universal service,” he said.
Conservative MP and Chhaya Health Secretary Edward Argar said that NHS needs “improvement, not only more cash” and warned that Labor’s plan was to be “real and delivery for patients”.
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davi said that the entire 10 -year NHS strategy would be “built on sand” until the ministers described as “crisis in social care”.
