Like many other people here, I’ve struggled recently to get swift access to healthcare, mental healthcare and social care for my family. We need to find solutions to the strains on our health and social services. But the answer can’t just be putting more money into them: we need to make services more efficient, like using AI to help diagnose, treat and monitor patients, and use public health services to get people to take responsibility for their own health.
And it’s not just state-run services: I’ll address the growing difficulty many of us experience in accessing basic services like banks by encourage banking hubs and mobile banks to set up here.