In December 2023, St George’s House, Windsor Castle hosted a consultation on the theme, Health Care – a Radical Rethink. Using cancer care as our template, the consultation looked at how we might best do things differently. The event was generously supported by Cancer Research UK.
Since then, the landscape has altered considerably. A new government is in place and we have a Secretary of State for Health who has stated publicly that the NHS is broken. He has since commissioned a review of NHS performance from Lord Darzi, whose report was published in September.
St George’s House proposes to host a follow-up consultation on 12th and 13th December 2024. Using cancer care again as our template, we will seek to provide a practical route map to what may be a better NHS. What does a better NHS look like? We all know the problems but we need to bring innovative, lateral thinking to the solutions, drawing on expertise from within and without the health sector. Considering the findings of the Darzi Report and with your help, let us look properly and pragmatically at how we might do things differently. With your help, let us draw up a St George’s House Manifesto, a working and workable document for the government to consider as it embarks on a programme of reform. Let us seek to provide a bridge from policy to practice.
