Public and staff invited to share views on how to improve NHS
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Members of the public as well as NHS staff and experts will be invited to share their experiences views and ideas for "fixing the NHS."

Health secretary, Wes Streeting, has called on the UK to "shape the government’s plans to overhaul the NHS."

This means that the public, clinicians and experts are being urged to submit ideas for the NHS' future as new online platform Change.NHS.uk goes live today – putting staff and patients in driving seat of reform.

It has been called the "biggest national conversation about the future of the NHS since its birth." 

The public engagement exercise will help shape the government’s 10 Year Health Plan which will be published in spring 2025 and will be underlined by three big shifts in healthcare - hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention.

The launch of the new online platform will take place at a health centre in East London, where the Secretary of State will meet with the Chief Executive of the London Ambulance Service before the first engagement event involving NHS staff from across the healthcare system as a start to the national conversation.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the government has "a clear plan to fix the health service" but that it's "only right that we hear from the people who rely on the NHS every day to have their say and shape our plan as we deliver it."

He continued: "We have a huge opportunity to put the NHS back on its feet. So, let’s be the generation that took the NHS from the worst crisis in its history and made it fit for the future."

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting added: "The NHS is going through the worst crisis in its history. But while the NHS is broken, it’s not beaten. Together, we can fix it.

"Whether you use the NHS or work in it, you see first-hand what’s great, but also what isn’t working. We need your ideas to help turn the NHS around.

"I urge everyone to go to Change.NHS.uk today and help us build a health service fit for the future.

"Investment alone won’t be enough to tackle the problems facing the NHS, why is why it must go hand in hand with fundamental reform."