The Health Secretary is resorting to giving patients virtual reality tours of the promised 40 new hospitals as they haven’t actually been built.
Steve Barclay is putting on roadshows across the country to give the public the chance to put on headsets and pretend they’re getting treated in the new facilities.
Labour declared it’s “time for a government that’s living in the real world” as they warned patients stuck on record waiting lists need actual hospitals not just make-believe ones. Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: "The Conservatives have gone from doing virtually nothing, to doing nothing virtually.”