Labour’s Wes Streeting launches review to plan for national care service

Exclusive: shadow health secretary says service in England would be brought in over several parliaments

Labour will aim to bring in a national care service in England free at the point of use, just as the 1945 government brought in the NHS, the shadow health secretary has said, launching a review of how it would work.

In an interview with the Guardian, Wes Streeting said he had asked the Fabian Society to look at how the service would be funded and structured, with a view to bringing it in over the course of several parliaments.