Organisations from across the NHS have urged the new Conservative government to boost care funding and help local leaders transform care.
Influential body the NHS Confederation – whose members include groups from across the healthcare system - revealed its top five priorities for the new government with calls for ‘concrete plans’ on how to improve mental health services and tackle funding shortfalls.
It said prime minister David Cameron now needed to ‘create space and stability for local health and care leaders to transform patient care’.
Cameron was also pushed to provide ‘the right staff with the right skills’ to deliver required levels of care.
The NHS Confederation’s to-do list said ministers needed to ‘sort out funding for social care’ and ‘be honest with the public about the challenges ahead’.
In the run up to last week’s General Election, Conservatives committed to a minimum real-terms increase in NHS funding of £8bn over the next five years while raising money for mental health care.
In its statement, the NHS Confederation said: ‘We welcome the Conservative Party’s commitment to the Five Year Forward View, but there are still many challenges facing health and care services that need be addressed.’
