LIVE: Keir Starmer Announces UK's ten year health plan

LIVE: Keir Starmer Announces UK’s ten year health plan – 10:30

Thousands more GPs and fewer hospital consultants will be trained in an effort to shift healthcare closer to home.

Two hundred new “neighbourhood health centres” will offer scans, outpatient appointments, mental health therapy and a host of services without the need to go to hospital, under proposals to be outlined in the government’s ten-year plan for the NHS.

Sir Keir Starmer said the plan would “fundamentally rewire” the health service, making hospitals a last resort instead of the “default” for care. He has previously said the NHS must “reform or die”.