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TORY Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock outlined the new White Paper in Parliament yesterday pushing a complete reorganisation of the NHS, breaking the NHS into local regions, where richer areas people will get treated and in poorer areas they will receive inadequate care while giving private companies free rein to take control of NHS funds.
Hancock told Parliament: ‘The new approach is based on the concept of population health. A statutory Integrated Care System (ICS) will be responsible in each part of England for the funding to support the health of their area. They will provide not just for the treatments which are needed but support people to stay healthy in the first place.
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3:51 PM February 12, 2021
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People over 70 as well as those who are clinically extremely vulnerable who have not yet received a Covid-19 vaccine are being asked to contact the NHS directly to book an appointment.
The Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Healthier Together partnership said until now, people have been asked to wait until they are contacted by the NHS to ensure the most vulnerable are vaccinated first – which remains the case for most people.
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The future of health and care
Statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, setting out the government s white paper on the future of health and care.
From:
11 February 2021
Mr Speaker, I come to the House today to set out our white paper on the future of health and care.
The past year has been the most challenging in the NHS’s proud 72-year history.
And the health and care system – as a whole – has risen in the face of great difficulties.
Throughout, people have done incredible things and worked in novel and remarkable ways to deliver for patients.
LGA responds to white paper plans to radically reform the NHS
Council leaders have warned that local government needs to be an equal partner in the design of any national oversight of social care as the Government sets out its white paper plans to overhaul the NHS.
The Government has said the white paper contains proposals to build on the ‘successful NHS response to the pandemic’, with health secretary Matt Hancock saying they would cure the NHS of red tape.
Chair of the Local Government Association’s (LGA) Community Wellbeing Board Cllr Ian Hudspeth said councils understood the Government’s desire for greater transparency in social care, ‘but councils need to be an equal partner in the design of any national oversight’.