Forbes May 10, 2018
Last year I looked at a new report from the House of Lords that explored the ‘future of healthcare’. As the name of the report suggests, the nature of the work lended itself to longer-term thinking, and this is a central criticism of current NHS leadership. Whilst the Five Year Forward View published by NHS England in 2014 is widely supported, it doesn’t look beyond 2019, and nothing has entered the public domain to highlight NHS policy beyond then.
Unfortunately, it’s not at all clear that the report fills that vacuum, despite a hugely impressive range of names summoned to give evidence to the committee. It makes 34 recommendations in total, and whilst it’s hard to argue with many of...