Starmer outlines 10-year plan to change NHS ‘from sickness service to health service’
by Peter Walker and Denis Campbell from World news | The Guardian on (#6YD71)
PM says work in England will focus on prevention, with early diagnosis, community hubs and lifestyle measures
Keir Starmer has outlined a 10-year plan for the NHS based on a shift from hospitals to community health hubs, a renewed focus on prevention and an embrace of technology, which was billed as perhaps the last chance to save the health service in its current form.
Speaking at a health centre in Stratford, east London, alongside Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Rachel Reeves, the chancellor - who had not been expected to appear - Starmer insisted this would be different to the long list of previous NHS revamps that achieved little.
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