Labour’s delayed and much vaunted Ten Year Plan for the NHS, Fit for the Future, has 150-plus pages rammed full of ideas, some good, some bad – but barely a word on how any of them are to be implemented, and not one word on how social care can be developed to keep pace with changes in the NHS. Any serious discussion on that has been shelved until at least 2028.
We can see Wes Streeting has been preparing for a full marriage between Labour and the private sector, following the engagement announcement back in January. In the jumble of half-baked and half-hearted ideas in the plan, there is a vague pattern: something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
Full article in The Lowdown, 8 July 2025
