PM supports Staffordshire’s work on healthcare

David Cameron’s statement supports last 2 years work to integrate health and care services in Staffordshire…

I have written before about the work we’ve been doing over the last couple of years to improve the healthcare system across Staffordshire as well as the fact it hasn’t got the recognition that it should have done nationally.

That’s probably because it’s been overshadowed by the historical, and tragic, issues at Stafford Hospital. And whilst there’s still a long way to go, a significant milestone has been reached with the formation of the new joint health and social care organisation.

As I say there are many even more complex things we need to do to improve the way the whole healthcare system serves the public and that will take several years to do properly even though we are more advanced than most in Staffordshire.

But the formation of the new organisation and the fundamental changes to the way health and social care professionals will now work as single, rather than different, teams is exactly what the Prime Minister is calling for.

So we are well placed for step change health and care services improvement in Staffordshire during the coming months and years and also prepared to help other areas across the UK to start that journey through the work we’ve already done and our experience.

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