Labour Party plan for the NHS: devil will be in the detail

Wes Streeting, Labour’s Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary laid out plans this week on how the Labour Party intends to get the NHS ‘back on its feet and fit for the future’. In a speech at the Labour Party Conference, he said that ‘the NHS is no longer the envy of the world’ and needs both investment and reform because pouring ever-increasing amounts of money into a system that isn’t working is a waste of time that is running out. “Labour will never abandon the founding principles of the NHS as a publicly funded public service, free at the