New Health Secretary Wes Streeting Says NHS Is ‘Broken’

After Labour’s landslide election victory Wes Streeting has been appointed health secretary and has given a stark assessment of the NHS.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting (R) with Science Secretary Peter Kyle (L), leaving 10 Downing Street in London, on July 6, 2024. Tejas Sandhu/PA Wire

New Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said the National Health Service (NHS) is “broken” and said, “patients are being failed on a daily basis.”

Mr. Streeting, who took over as health and social care secretary on Friday after serving in the same portfolio in the shadow cabinet, said the NHS was “going through the biggest crisis in its history,” and it could not be fixed overnight.