Stephen Dixon: ‘I live with type 1 diabetes – Keir Starmer’s plan to abolish NHS England could screw me over’
GB News star Stephen Dixon has outlined his major concern with Keir Starmer’s plan to abolish NHS England.
Thousands of jobs are to be cut after the prime minister announced plans to bring the health service “back into democratic control”.
Speaking in Hull yesterday, Starmer said the state is “overstretched” and “unfocused”.
Speaking on the People’s Channel, Stephen said one particular role will be at risk which could spell bad news for him.
“I know the NHS England lead for diabetes”, he said.
“He’s the only man in the entire health system who got anything done for diabetics in terms of getting new technologies rolled out.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
- Reorganising the NHS just a way of creating the illusion of progress, says Bev Turner
- WATCH: Nigel Farage praises Keir Starmer for scrapping NHS – ‘I don’t disagree!’
- ‘I wish we’d had the guts to do this!’ Ex-Tory Minister PRAISES PM for swinging axe on NHS England
“That’s my concern. If that role doesn’t exist, type 1 diabetics are going to be screwed.”
Stephen has previously opened up about living with type 1 diabetes, telling GB News he has “determinedly not allowed it to get in my way” in 2013.
“I was advised to delay going to university for a year – no chance said I, and thank heavens for it. I wouldn’t be where I am now if I hadn’t done what I did at that specific time”, he wrote.
Stephen has to monitor his sugar levels and food intake on a daily basis.
He explained eating a small chocolate bar, with no insulin, would likely increase his glucose levels to “dangerously high” levels.
He monitors his insulin intake with a pump which “delivers those 480 squirts of insulin by itself, one every three minutes”.
He went on to add: “As much as I love the technology, as much as being T1D has given me a focus on health, has forced me to take a positive outlook.
“As much as my specialists marvel at how well controlled I am and, to be honest, heap praise on me when I’m being checked out, 31 years in and I AM TIRED.
“It is a constant drain. Always checking, always monitoring, always calculating. Sometimes it does just get you down.”
Speaking about his decision to slash NHS England, Starmer said: “This will put the NHS back at the heart of government where it belongs.”
He argued it would also “free” the service to “focus on patients, less bureaucracy, with more money for nurses”.
The Department of Health and Social Care stated the reforms will reverse the 2012 top-down reorganisation of the NHS.
The changes aim to drive efficiency and empower staff to deliver better care by ending duplication resulting from two organisations doing the same job.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting described the move as “the final nail in the coffin of the disastrous 2012 reorganisation, which led to the longest waiting times, lowest patient satisfaction, and most expensive NHS in history.”