Labour’s shadow health minister, Wes Streeting, told News that his party will accomplish the goal by providing “40,000 more appointments every week, extra evenings, and weekend clinics.”.
To diagnose patients more quickly, the number of scanners will be doubled. Additionally, extra capacity in the private sector will be used without charging patients, and Labour promises “the biggest expansion of NHS staff in history” will be implemented.
He reported that the modifications were “spectacularly well” operating in several minor hospitals where they were already being piloted.
Mr. Streeting expressed confidence in his ability to “get more people through and start eating into the 1.6 million-strong backlog” in addition to “the investment needed” and new diagnostic scanners.
“We’re also going to use the spare capacity that exists in the independent sector because we’re already seeing people who can afford paying to go private,” he stated.
According to the party, “clamping down on tax dodgers and closing non-dom tax loopholes” will pay for the £1.3 billion plan.
During his formal policy announcement today in the West Midlands, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to make a commitment to “take the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS so patients in every part of the country can be treated on time”.
