What do we really need to change about the NHS? Later this week we will finally get the NHS plan from Health Secretary Wes Streeting which, like all the other big reforms before, promises to make the health service fit for the future and focused on patients. Streeting has been more articulate than many previous ministers about the failings of the current setup, saying the NHS today is often organised around the needs of the system, rather than the people it is meant to serve. One of the most pernicious aspects of this is the way the health service deals with mistakes.

Streeting has already trailed ‘pioneering AI technology’ in the new plan which he says will ‘rapidly analyses healthcare data and ring the alarm bell on emerging safety issues’. He hopes it could stop scandals like Mid-Staffs, or the many maternity units still under investigation for dreadful care. 

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