No need for ‘ventriloquists’ to give NHS patients a voice – Streeting

Health Secretary Wes Streeting outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Patients do not need “ventriloquists” from arm’s length bodies to speak for them, and more weight should be given to the likes of MPs and councillors, according to the Health Secretary.

Wes Streeting suggested the patient safety landscape is “cluttered”, with NHS leaders receiving “competing and contradictory instructions” from different organisations.