NHS reforms: Labour puts on a brave face
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Today Wes Streeting – with the help of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves – announced his 10 year plan for curing the NHS. It’s all about creating a ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’, but what does actually mean in practice?
Much of the plan was leaked in advance: first, focusing on preventing disease before it becomes too late; second, improving community healthcare services to help reduce pressure on hospitals; and third, embracing the tech revolution to bring the NHS into the ‘digital age’. One of the glaring omissions is a chapter on how this will all be delivered.
Perhaps the most notable part of today’s launch was the decision to include Rachel Reeves – last seen in the Commons looking distraught as the Prime Minister (brutally) failed to back her. He has since thrown his support behind her – but has he made his political bed? Are Starmer and Reeves codependent?
Oscar Edmondson speaks to Lucy Dunn and Isabel Hardman.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:45.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oskreibnison, |
| 0:50.9 | and I'm joined today by Lucy Dunn and Isabel Hardman. And we are going to be talking about West Streeting's 10-year plan for curing the NHS, which he's announced today. |
| 0:59.8 | Now, Lucy, I'm going to come to you first because listeners may not be aware that you're actually a trained doctor. |
| 1:04.8 | And you were at the launch today. |
| 1:07.0 | So as a medical professional, would you say that you welcome these new changes by West Trading? |
| 1:13.5 | Well, to be very clear, I don't practice medicine at the moment. |
| 1:16.0 | But it's interesting coming at it from a medical perspective. |
| 1:19.4 | I think there's been a lot of stuff that has been talked about today that doctors have been talking about for quite a while now. |
| 1:24.8 | I think Streeting and Starm are both led to this themselves, |
| 1:33.5 | that, you know, there's certainly a very big appetite for change amongst clinicians, you know, |
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