How well are Wes Streeting's health reforms going?

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has made a lot of promises about the NHS. Before he got into power, he talked about slashing bureaucracy, introducing AI and improving patient autonomy. While he claims to have made progress in the last nine months, is it enough?

As Katy Balls and Michael Gove say in their interview with the Health Secretary for this week’s issue, Streeting is keen for more ‘responsive and entrepreneurial’ healthcare. He wants a devolved approach that means healthcare services across the country could better deal with local problems in a personalised way. In many ways, this aligns with the ‘personalised medicine’ approach that most healthcare services look towards, incorporating what medicine at the moment is capable of – using modern science to target particular types of disease while filtering patients to the right system.