Health Secretary launches consultation to modernise NHS

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced a consultation to finalise the government’s 10-year plan to modernize the NHS.  Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well, this week the Prime Minister and I are launching the biggest consultation in the

00:05history of the NHS to help us finalise our 10-year plan that will make the NHS not just

00:11back on its feet, but fit for the future and the 21st century.

00:16But we've already hit the ground running.

00:18We've solved the junior doctor strike, that means no strikes going into this winter.

00:22We've put in place the funding to employ 1,000 more GPs onto the front line in the coming

00:27months.

00:28We've introduced a ban on advertising of junk food targeted at kids.

00:32We'll shortly be introducing the smoking bill to Parliament.

00:35We've got the mental health bill ready to go.

00:37And we'll be sending, in a matter of days, crack teams of top clinicians into hospitals

00:42with high waiting lists and high levels of people off work, off sick, so that we can

00:47get people back to health and back to work faster.

00:51So we're hitting the ground running.

00:53We're not going to pretend there's still loads more to do, but in just a short space

00:59of time we've shown that this Labour government is already making a difference.

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