NHS: Standards

(asked on 7th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve levels of patient satisfaction with the NHS.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 12th March 2019

The National Health Service is committed to providing safe, high quality, and compassionate care and this Government is supporting them in doing so by providing the single biggest cash increase made in the organisation’s history. By 2023/24 the NHS budget will increase by £33.9 billion in cash terms – which means that the NHS now has unprecedented certainty to plan for the next decade, ensuring that patients will be supported with world-class care at every stage of their life.

The NHS Long Term Plan acknowledges public concern about funding, staffing, increasing inequalities and pressures from a growing and ageing population and looks at opportunities offered by the prospect of continuing medical advance and better outcomes of care.

Working with frontline health and care staff, patients and their families and other experts, the Plan proposes further redesign of the way patient care is delivered, making the NHS better able to deliver first-class care for major health problems, such as cancer and heart disease, and to improve the lives of older people.

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