The next Government will be tasked with tackling the major challenges faced by the NHS – from staff shortages, strikes over pay and huge waiting lists, to increasing demand from an ageing and increasingly obese population, health inequalities, and a crisis in social care. Recent major reports have outlined the priorities for future leaders. CSJ provides an overview of their key findings.
A number of major reports from healthcare thought leaders have sought to identify some of the top priorities for tackling the challenges facing the NHS. Among the top priorities for healthcare leaders is the need to increase funding to repair dilapidated buildings, invest in cutting-edge technology, drive down long waiting lists, refocus on preventative health strategies, write off student loans for doctors, nurses and midwives, and to make care closer to home a reality.
This article looks at some of the key findings. What is clear, from these reports, is that major investment in staff, buildings and technology is urgently needed.
The NHS Confederation's report, Building the health of the nation: priorities for a new government, sets out what health and care leaders want the next government to prioritise as services grapple with rising demand and a decade of underinvestment.1 Based on extensive engagement with its networks, the NHS Confederation has identified the five most critical factors that its members have said will help to secure the future of the service in a general election year. These are to:
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