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| Johnson pushes 'personalised' NHS | |
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| The health secretary is expected to outline plans turn the NHS in England into a more "personalised" service. | |
| Alan Johnson will tell Labour's spring conference in Birmingham that the days of a "one-size-fits-all" NHS are over and people should have more choice. | |
| He will repeat his pledge for GPs to open at weekends and evenings. | |
| And say that extended opening hours are not just useful for commuters and hard-pressed City "hot shots" but for hourly paid manual workers as well. | |
| Loggerheads | Loggerheads |
| Mr Johnson will say: "The days of patients being the passive recipients of one-size-fits-all service are over." | Mr Johnson will say: "The days of patients being the passive recipients of one-size-fits-all service are over." |
| While pointing to "dramatic reductions" in deaths from cancer and heart disease, he is expected to consider the new challenges facing the NHS, such as obesity, growing mental health problems and an ageing population. | While pointing to "dramatic reductions" in deaths from cancer and heart disease, he is expected to consider the new challenges facing the NHS, such as obesity, growing mental health problems and an ageing population. |
| He will say: "It is for these reasons that we will put increased investment in healthcare for all before tax cuts for the wealthy few." | He will say: "It is for these reasons that we will put increased investment in healthcare for all before tax cuts for the wealthy few." |
| The government and doctors' union, the British Medical Association, have been at loggerheads over the plans for extended surgery opening hours. | The government and doctors' union, the British Medical Association, have been at loggerheads over the plans for extended surgery opening hours. |
| Mr Johnson is expected to urge GPs to accept the deal, which will see an average-sized practice with 6,000 patients open an extra three hours a week. | Mr Johnson is expected to urge GPs to accept the deal, which will see an average-sized practice with 6,000 patients open an extra three hours a week. |
| 'More choice' | |
| Labour has made reform of public services the key themes of its spring conference, with Schools Secretary Ed Balls pledging to speed up Labour's academy schools programme. | |
| Women's minister Harriet Harman is also expected to outline plans to allow people caring for elderly relatives to go out to work without losing benefits in what she will dub "the granny state". | |
| But the government's plans to extend GP opening hours have met resistance from doctors, who say there is little evidence of demand for it from the public. | |
| Mr Johnson is expected to hit back at such criticisms, telling delegates: "People should have more choice over when they are able to see their GP. | |
| "I hope that GPs will agree to provide extra appointments at weekends or evenings. This is not just for the benefit of commuters who struggle to see their Doctor. | |
| "When surgeries in Canary Wharf opened early in the morning their first patients where not city hot shots, but hourly paid manual workers who lost money, or worse their jobs, if they didn't go to work. | |
| "The days of patients being the passive recipients of one-size fits all service are over. " |