Sir Keir Starmer will launch his plan to deliver millions more appointments across the NHS in a bid to reduce waiting times to 18 weeks over the next five years. The prime minister will lay out how greater access to community diagnostic centres (CDCs) will help deliver up to half a million more appointments, alongside 14 new surgical hubs and three expanded existing hubs.

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The government has billed the plan as an important milestone in a broader effort to reduce the number of people enduring long waits for appointments, procedures and surgeries. Sir Keir added: “Greater choice and convenience for patients. Staff once again able to give the standard of care they desperately want to.” A key Labour election […]

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With pressure growing on the prime minister to deliver on his general election promises, he will use a major speech to set out a plan aimed at taking millions of patients off waiting lists and tackling backlogs in hospitals

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The new plan aims to free up millions of hospital appointment slots.

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The Prime Minister made the announcement as he sought to put his under-fire Government on the front foot in the New Year

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Millions of patients will be able to access more appointments closer to home and during weekends and evenings, in a bid to bring down high NHS waiting lists.
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) said that under the plans revealed on Monday, two million extra appointments will be made available in the first year, equivalent to 40,000 more every week.
This will be delivered by increasing the number of locations that provide medical ser…

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NHS England's elective reform plan, to be published on Monday, is part of a drive to deliver two million extra appointments by the end of next year

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