COMMENTARY

I LOVE our NHS. It’s there for us and our families when we need it most, and every one of us has a special, personal connection to it.

In particular, we all owe an enormous debt to the incredible staff who make the health service what it is.

We are already backing our NHS with the biggest cash injection in history, an extra £34billion every year by 2023-24. And I want to go even further.

Leaving the EU means we are now free to determine our own future and unleash the enormous potential of the British people.

No longer bound by unnecessary red tape, this is a moment to break down avoidable barriers and look ahead with confidence at the bright future we will carve out for the NHS and all those it serves.we will be working with the professions to look at how we can make it easier and quicker for existing healthcare workers wanting to switch professions.

This is great news for staff. And it is great news for patients.

We will use these new freedoms to strengthen the NHS, with world-leading technology, improved, less box-ticking training and education to support our clinicians. The UK is moving forward, united, in this new chapter – and the NHS will be at the centre every step of the way.