NHS England Plan plans to diagnose more cancer early, enhancing women’s health and increasing childhood vaccines after he told the ministers that by giving priority to cutting waiting times.
The health service also gives up pledges to expand access to dental treatment, give more medications to people to prevent strokes and enhance care for those with learning difficulties.
Under the changes, care providers will also drop obligations to increase the number of people diagnosed with dementia, provides patients with more options about where they are treated and expand the use of conversation treatments for those who suffer from anxiety and depression.
Health experts and charities criticized the plans. They warned that the shift in priorities was not dangerous with the government’s ambition to improve the health of the nation and to prove that it is harmful and even “dangerous” for some patient groups.
Wes Streeting sought to calm such concerns by requesting a health service to focus on providing shorter waiting times for the care of A & E, cancer and hospital treatment. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to benefit faster access and diagnosis. Investigative studies have shown that the long delay of NHS care is the biggest concern for the public.
The Minister of Health announced the reform when he was delivered NHS The instructions for its mandate and planning-“success measures” whose energy and resources must focus-in the period from 2025-26. It has reduced a list of NHS priorities from 32 to 2024-25 to only 18 for the next fiscal year.
Streeting said: “This new approach will witness that NHS focuses on what matters more for patients – cutting waiting lists, getting to know the A& E and the ability to get a GP date.”
But this did not ignore criticism from health groups. Dr. Sarah Hughes, CEO of the charitable mind, accused the ministers of “the end of mental health” after dropping a set of plans to improve care. They included plans to grant 75 % of people with severe mental illness an annual examination of physical health, to ensure at least 700,000 people annually in the course of psychiatric treatments, and expand the mother’s mental health support to at least 66,000 women.
Obstetricians and gynecologists said that giving up plans to ensure that both the 42 NHS regions in England have a dedicated women’s health center by last December was in violation of the commitment of the electoral statement in the Labor Party to determine the priorities of women’s health. However, 39 of 42 integrated health panels already have at least one.
The 14 goals that have been dropped also include obtaining 80 % of those with high blood pressure to statin, giving 75 % of people with learning difficulties annually and increased childhood vaccination rates-which have decreased in recent years-to recommended levels It is by the World Health Organization.
“Reducing the total number of NHS national goals is not necessarily bad,” said Sarah Walleno, CEO of King’s Fund Thinktank.
But she added: “Determining a relatively large number of hospital care targets, with the loss of childhood vaccination targets and the presentation of medicines to people at risk of developing cardiovascular disease, appears to be at odds with the ambition of the ministers to prevent the disease and not only its factor.”
The previous plan was replaced to increase the amount of dental activity by NHS for 2025-26 with a limited pledge to expand the number of urgent teeth dates.
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“The improvements in dentistry have been delayed long ago, but today less than half of the adults are already receiving NHS tests, and the goals in this direction will not change significantly,” said Dr. Pix Fisher, Research and Politics Director at Nuffield Trust.
“Given that NHS cannot cover everyone on this budget, it is not clear that more emergency times should be priority. People who cannot withstand special care costs, or who need prevention to avoid worse problems, must come first. “
Fiona Carager, of Al -Zheimer’s Association, said it “shocked” that the goal to improve the diagnosis of dementia was not in the new direction.
John Sparks, CEO of MENCAP, said: “Canceling the vital NHS goals for persons with educational disabilities is a dangerous step back,” said MENCAP.
The new guidelines will force her to NHS England to get rid of 2000 jobs as part of a campaign to make 325 million pounds in the next year, while the service as a whole was informed by reducing its costs by 1 % – about one billion pounds.
“In what will be undoubtedly a harsh fiscal year, NHS will continue its continuous focus on enhancing productivity and driving effectiveness of the benefits of patients and taxpayers,” said Amanda British, CEO of NHS England.
