Nick Clegg speech on NHS reforms

Nick Clegg speech on NHS reforms; Clegg speech SOT - The Coalition is protecting NHS funding but, even with that protection, our health services face huge financial and demographic pressures in the future. And unless we change the way we do things now, to get the most out of every pound we spend, we are setting the NHS up for a fall. So the world is changing, and the NHS needs to change with it. There's nothing wrong with saying that there are areas where we can improve. Nothing wrong with patients being demanding about what they expect for their taxes, or admitting that sometimes people have bad experiences as well as good. How often have you heard about an older patient stuck in hospital for weeks because there’s nowhere else for them to convalesce? Or someone who's had to trek to hospital for a minor treatment like getting a hearing aid fitted - something they could have done on the high street? Or asthmatic and diabetic patients not getting the right support to manage their condition ending up in A&E before being put on the ward to recover? We have too many patients, spending too long in hospital, taking too long to get better. Everyone knows our healthcare professionals are some of the most passionate, dedicated and talented in the world. The need to reform isn't a reflection on them; it isn’t a criticism of the NHS. It's a response to changing circumstances: longer life expectancy, developments in medicine and technology, unprecedented pressure on the public purse. And those professionals will be the first to tell you: together, we can do better. What mustn't change, however, are the principles on which our NHS is founded. When Beveridge first proposed a nationalised health service in 1942, he didn't prescribe exactly how it should work. He called for a comprehensive service to ensure every citizen can get "whatever medical treatment he requires in whatever form he requires it." Care, free at the point of use, based on need and not ability to pay. No ...
Nick Clegg speech on NHS reforms; Clegg speech SOT - The Coalition is protecting NHS funding but, even with that protection, our health services face huge financial and demographic pressures in the future. And unless we change the way we do things now, to get the most out of every pound we spend, we are setting the NHS up for a fall. So the world is changing, and the NHS needs to change with it. There's nothing wrong with saying that there are areas where we can improve. Nothing wrong with patients being demanding about what they expect for their taxes, or admitting that sometimes people have bad experiences as well as good. How often have you heard about an older patient stuck in hospital for weeks because there’s nowhere else for them to convalesce? Or someone who's had to trek to hospital for a minor treatment like getting a hearing aid fitted - something they could have done on the high street? Or asthmatic and diabetic patients not getting the right support to manage their condition ending up in A&E before being put on the ward to recover? We have too many patients, spending too long in hospital, taking too long to get better. Everyone knows our healthcare professionals are some of the most passionate, dedicated and talented in the world. The need to reform isn't a reflection on them; it isn’t a criticism of the NHS. It's a response to changing circumstances: longer life expectancy, developments in medicine and technology, unprecedented pressure on the public purse. And those professionals will be the first to tell you: together, we can do better. What mustn't change, however, are the principles on which our NHS is founded. When Beveridge first proposed a nationalised health service in 1942, he didn't prescribe exactly how it should work. He called for a comprehensive service to ensure every citizen can get "whatever medical treatment he requires in whatever form he requires it." Care, free at the point of use, based on need and not ability to pay. No ...
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