It is all about you: building a patient-centred NHS

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

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Summary

Conversations about ‘modernising’ the NHS have been happening for almost as long as the NHS itself. The 2019 Long Term Plan put so-called ‘patient-centred care’ at the forefront, writing that: “The NHS also needs a more fundamental shift in how we work alongside patients and individuals to deliver more person-centred care, recognising – as National Voices has championed – the importance of ‘what matters to someone’ is not just ‘what’s the matter with someone’.”

All well and good, but then, came the pandemic. The new health secretary Sajid Javid has said that that waiting list will rise to 13 million people in the coming months.

Where does that leave efforts to modernise the NHS now, and in particular for that patient-led vision that the Long Term Plan had set out?

Kate Andrews hosts this special episode of Spectator Sounds with a panel of expert guests:
Sir Jim Mackey, head of Northumbria’s NHS Trust and former head of NHS Improvement
Charlotte Augst, head of National Voices, a coalition group of patient-centred health charities
Todd Manning, the Vice-President and General Manager of Abbvie UK.

This podcast is sponsored by Abbvie UK.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special episode for The Spectators podcast.
0:12.1	I'm Kate Andrews and I'm your host for the next 30 minutes.
0:15.5	Conversations about modernizing the NHS have been happening for almost as long as the NHS itself.
0:20.7	In the 2019 long-term plan,
0:22.6	Thank you very much, David, and Prime Minister, Secretary of State,
0:26.6	my colleagues from across the NHS.
0:28.6	Announced by Sir Simon Stevens, until recently the head of NHS England,
0:32.6	put so-called patient-centered care at the forefront,
0:35.6	writing that the NHS also needs a more fundamental
0:39.1	shift in how we work alongside patients and individuals to deliver more person-centered care,
0:45.5	recognizing as national voices has championed, the importance of what matters to someone is not
0:51.1	just what's the matter with someone. All well and good, but then came COVID.
0:56.2	I urge you at this moment of national emergency.
1:01.1	To stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives.
1:10.4	Between waves one and two, the NHS did try to get through its backlog of cancelled surgery and postponed appointments, but they had little hope.
1:18.8	And today's record-breaking waiting times in England are a further reminder of the destruction of COVID.
1:25.4	The new health secretary, Sajad Javid, is warning that waiting list could rise as high as 13 million
1:30.7	people in the coming months. So where does that leave efforts to modernize the NHS now?
1:35.9	And in particular, for that patient-led vision that the long-term plan had set out.
1:40.9	For this special episode of The Spectator's podcast, I'll be asking this question of a panel of expert guests.
1:46.9	Sir Jim Mackie is the head of Northumbria's NHS Trust and former head of NHS Improvement.
1:52.8	Charlotte Oxt is head of the National Voices, a coalition group for patient-centered health charities,
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