BMJ commission on the NHS: don’t forget the workforce and young people

Crisp and colleagues commendably revisit Bevan’s five principles that laid the foundations of the NHS 75 years ago—a comprehensive service, universally available, based on clinical need, free at the point of need, and funded through collective contributions—to build an NHS for the future.1The NHS is indeed in its gravest crisis in all its parts, from primary to secondary care, from lack of resources to multiple workforce problems and the failings that have too often caused patients misery. So, the authors have a justified call for a health and care emergency, except that we can’t wait until the next election. We need to act now.I would also like to see the NHS being run independently of government, so I support the proposal for an Office for NHS Policy and Budgetary Responsibility.There are two other issues that I’d like the BMJ’s commissioners to deal with. The first is that there should clearly…
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