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Key details from the launch of ‘our plan for patients’ by the health and social care secretary

Every day we see things that should shame the nation. The health secretary’s solution? Ask the public to pitch in, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

"I think people like Thérèse Coffey need to spend some time in a GP practice"

Yet another new health secretary has arrived with all kinds of whizzo ideas, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Thérèse Coffey announces measure aimed at freeing up beds in hospitals in England before winter pressures

But Labour’s Wes Streeting blasts Coffey’s ‘ABCD’ proposals as ‘Sesame Street’

THE resignation of Andy Byford as London’s Transport Commissioner is a blow for the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and a blow for Londoners. Mr Byford was widely respected, and helped negotiate a funding deal with the Government which partly addresses TfL’s shortfall in revenue due to Covid. Given the frosty relationship…

Thérèse Coffey describes new goal for offering patient an appointment as ‘expectation’ not guarantee

The chancellor says the move will save 28m people £330 on average next year

Government has called for public to ‘do their bit’ and volunteer to support NHS

Funding is being 'freed up' to recruit extra support staff for GPs, but volunteers will still be called on to help out across the NHS