Reforms to the NHS which saw the government break its promises and enforce a top-down reorganisation were necessary to provide the money needed for a seven-day health service in the future that will reduce mortality rates, Jeremy Hunt has said.
The health secretary defended the controversial shakeup of the NHS, which saw vast sections scrapped and new organisations created in the early days of the coalition, saying it had made £1.5bn in savings which will be used to ensure hospitals can open at weekends when, he admitted, people are more likely to die.
David Cameron is due to announce plans later on Saturday for hospitals across England to offer high-level consultant care seven days a week by 2020. The plans aim to reducing mortality rates at the weekends, when resources and key decision makers are sometimes not available for patients and junior doctors are frequently left on their own to deal with seriously ill patients.
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/28/jeremy-hunt-defends-nhs-reforms-as-vital-to-seven-day-careI think this is a good and necessary reform for the UK sanity (I'm not from UK). Do you think the NHS will be afford the extra service (write in the article) without ask more "money". Tell your opinion here, in this thread (thanks).
PS: maybe I will transfer in the UK, I love that country.
