The comments made by Yvette Cooper, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in an interview with the Guardian on 5 August 2026.
We’ve always said the NHS is about the cradle to the grave. I want to make it a personal crusade to put the cradle back at the heart of the NHS, and to have much more focus around maternity and child health, the very beginning of a family’s life, making that much more central to the priorities of the NHS, giving it the priority that it really deserves.