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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Labour wants to build an NHS ‘fit for the future’. Can it cut waiting times?

Life under Labour NHS illustration: images of medical staff, a hospital bed, a stethoscope and an ambulance are clustered around an NHS logo on a red background
Public satisfaction with the NHS is the lowest since records began 40 years ago and Labour would ‘inherit a really terrible set of problems’, says one expert. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty images/EPA

Labour appears poised to win a historic election victory on 4 July. In the series Life under Labour, we look at Keir Starmer’s five key political missions and ask what is at stake and whether he can deliver the change the country is crying out for.

“If 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,” says Siva Anandaciva, the chief analyst at the King’s Fund thinktank.

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