Labour wants to build an NHS βfit for the futureβ. Can it cut waiting times?
The partyβs pledge for the NHS is βhugely ambitiousβ, says one expert, though others are more optimistic.
Labour appears poised to win a historic election victory on 4 July. In the series Life under Labour, we look at Keir Starmerβs five key political missions and ask what is at stake and whether he can deliver the change the country is crying out for.
βIf they came into power, the Labour party would inherit a really terrible set of problems in the NHS that are both broader and deeper than the ones they faced in 1997. This feels a lot worse,β says Siva Anandaciva, the chief analyst at the Kingβs Fund thinktank.
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