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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Starmer pledges to fight for NHS ‘day and night’ as PM says health service is ‘cornerstone of Britain’

Rebuilding the NHS is the cornerstone of rebuilding Britain, the prime minister said, as he pledged to fight for the health service “day and night”.

Giving a speech at a hospital in Surrey on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer unveiled more detail about his plans for slashing NHS waiting lists, with the aim of slashing the number of people waiting longer than 18 weeks for treatment in England by nearly half a million over the next year.

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