A major reversal of an unpopular 2013 shake-up of the UK National Health Service carried out by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition is aimed to “cut bureaucracy” and bring management of the health service “back into democratic control”. Keir Starmer said “abolishing the biggest quango in the world” by getting rid of NHS England would free up cash for doctors, nurses and frontline services, and speed up improvements in the NHS. The merger is expected to take two years.
The NHS, 5 July 1948 12 am, has a caring Cancer Sun square a healing (though not always practical) Neptune in Libra. The Solar Eclipse this year will rattle up the Neptune which doesn’t sound overly dynamic but (being wildly optimistic) may waken up the helping/healing raison d’etre of the organization.
The NHS Mutable T Square onto a focal point Mars in hard-working Virgo will have a tendency to go off in several directions at once so finding focus and managing anxiety will always be a priority. That T square is being activated by the Solar Arc Sun square Solar Arc Neptune – since 2021 and on through a major jolt in 2026 and more into 2028. So very much a game-changing phase in the NHS’s destiny.
Whether so much Neptune will lead to a new vision being effected or a period of confusion isn’t clear.
Health Minister Wes Streeting, 21 January 1983, is certainly tough enough to push ahead with major changes with his dogged Saturn in Scorpio conjunct Pluto Sun square his Aquarius Sun and trine His Mars in Pisces which in turn is in a risk-taking and lucky square to Jupiter Uranus. He will be under maximum pressure in 2026 with tr Pluto square his Saturn and tr Uranus square his Mars.
His relationship chart with the NHS has a friendly undertone but is also extremely fluid and fast-changing.
The Starmer Government chart 5 July 2024, 12.19pm London does have Saturn in the 6th house of health trine a 10th house Cancer Sun so health was always going to be a key issue.
Throughout all of the charts there is a great deal of Neptune plus an excess of scattergun Mutable which does not necessarily suggest a straightforward road ahead. The NHS is an unwieldy beast, loaded with impossible expectations.
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