The Guardian view on Labour’s NHS reforms: where is the plan to deliver them?

‘The difficulties involved in the ambitious behind-the-scenes reorganisation that Mr Streeting initiated in the spring have also become clearer.’ Photograph: Alamy

The state of the health service is one of the key metrics on which this government will be judged. Of course this is to some extent true for all governments. But it is particularly so for a Labour administration that made the revival of the NHS part of its core pitch to voters.

Such assessments of progress are all the more pressing in the context of Sir Keir Starmer’s increasingly beleaguered leadership. With Wes Streeting widely recognised to be among a handful of possible successors, colleagues and party members will be asking: has he delivered what they and voters hoped?