…. can be read in full here. We’ve called the report:
The NHS as a national asset
Putting patients and growth at the heart of the NHS
Because we truly believe that the NHS can both deliver better care to patients, stimulate economic growth and become a national asset that attracts more international custom. Some of our resommendations include:
- Don’t hamper competition
- Admit choice has its limits
- Don’t undermine NICE
- Put safety ahead of sentimentality – allow failure
- Merge CQC and Monitor
- Introduce payment-by-results for patients
- Increase chances for co-payments
Whilst supporting much of the direction of travel the Health Bill makes some key omissions that would drive improved health benefits and stimulate economic growth that we cover: the adoption of technology to transform long-term condition management, extension of co-payments and incentivising personal responsibility in healthcare.
Competition has to be real, there has to be the chance of failure – otherwise we will repeat the mistakes of the banking crisis where high risks were taken on the assumption that the bank would not be allowed to fail – only in this case it means poor hospitals survive while patients die due to inadequate care.
Our recommendations come under three headings:
1. Smarter spending
2. Improving the quality
3. Re defining the caring experience
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