Labour has announced comprehensive plans to overhaul NHS dentistry and the wider health service, aiming to address the challenges that have accumulated over 14 years of Conservative governance. Nearly 5 million people have resorted to calling NHS 111 for dental issues in the past five years, highlighting the urgent need for reform in NHS dentistry. Labour's strategy includes funding an additional 700,000 urgent dental appointments annually and initiating a targeted recruitment scheme to attract more dentists to underserved areas. Beyond dentistry, Labour's health reform agenda, as articulated by Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting, encompasses broader NHS modernization efforts. These efforts include integrating private sector resources to reduce waiting times and introducing weekend services, all while ensuring the plans are 'fully costed' and fully funded. Streeting has emphasized the necessity of 'major surgery' to revamp the NHS, a stance summarized by his assertion that 'the NHS is a service, not a shrine' and underscored by the current 'worst crisis in its history'.
🚨 NEW: Wes Streeting has vowed to not let “middle class lefties” stop him from reforming the NHS [@thetimes]
The Tories have had 14yrs to fix the dental care emergency, but things have only gotten worse. That's why I'm backing plans to fund an additional 700k urgent appointments each year, and reform dental care contracts so that everyone can see an NHS dentist. https://t.co/N2cpMqhfVo
Wes Streeting is spouting utter rubbish about our NHS. Why is nobody in Labour breaking ranks and calling him out? This is really important. We need our NHS restored to its 2010 level when it had its highest-ever public satisfaction rating. We don’t want it finished off.
🔴 Streeting hits out at ‘middle-class Lefties’ opposed to Labour NHS plans https://t.co/5epZ7AgFhD
Labour will take on “middle-class lefties” who are opposed to Labour’s plans to use the private sector to reduce NHS waiting lists, Wes Streeting has said ⬇️ https://t.co/LVq4QmIbbN
Wes Streeting has no money to pay NHS doctors and nurses a decent salary. But billions to dish out in private sector contracts. https://t.co/fpV7Qhooc5
Wes Streeting makes renewed push for more NHS privatisation in the Sun. Talks about “spare capacity” in the private sector There is none. Only NHS trained doctors and nurses and (under Wes) billions from NHS contracts https://t.co/fpV7Qhooc5
.@wesstreeting: You won’t find a single dentist working in the NHS who isn’t clamouring for ‘major surgery’ to the broken system we work to. Not a nip or a tuck. But wholesale extraction of a failed contract that puts Govt targets ahead of patient care. https://t.co/71NH8jagb7 https://t.co/KOloz6OGcf
‘Unless we change the way the NHS does things we will end up back in the position of this Government... the worst crisis in its history.’ Shadow Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting MP, sets out Labour's plans to modernise the NHS. https://t.co/ARKaIKzBRh
The greatest threat to the NHS is Starmer’s Labour and Wes Streeting. https://t.co/ZVkaIaGlIz #r4today
Labour has outlined new plans for the NHS including bringing in the private sector and weekend services to cut waiting times but where will the money come from? Labour shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting says Labour's plans are 'fully costed' and 'they will be fully funded.' https://t.co/ewRso345ET
Wes Streeting in the Sun (again).. “the NHS is a service, not a shrine” https://t.co/cNFqMgSz64
Wes Streeting warns NHS that there'll be no additional funding without 'major surgery' under Labour | The Sun - “The problems with the NHS are clear. It’s a 20th century service that hasn’t changed with the times and isn’t fit for the modern era.” https://t.co/xv4wvxUt1F
EXC: @wesstreeting throws down the gauntlet saying time for private sector help to reduce waiting lists - and no more cash for heath service without “major surgery” of reform. In punchy @thesun piece tomorrow he warns: “Middle-class lefties cry ‘betrayal’. The real betrayal is…
Labour has a plan to rescue NHS dentistry, and reform it for the long run. This includes funding an additional 700,000 urgent appointments a year and delivering a targeted recruitment scheme for dentists in the areas that need them most. https://t.co/2JbETTJquG
Labour has a plan to rescue NHS dentistry, and reform it for the long run. This includes funding an additional 700,000 urgent appointments a year and delivering a targeted recruitment scheme for dentists in the areas that need them the most. https://t.co/JWV05GF2W6
The record number of 111 calls for dental problems shows the desperate state of NHS dentistry after 14 years of Tory neglect. Only Labour has a plan to rescue NHS dentistry, and reform it for the long term. https://t.co/ElYOppyXWV
Nearly 5 million people called NHS 111 for dental problems in the last five years as millions of patients have nowhere else to turn. Labour has a plan to rescue NHS dentistry, and reform it for the long run👇🏻 https://t.co/pDyKu1Q2zG