SIR Keir Starmer has vowed to fix the “broken NHS”; by dragging it “from bricks to clicks”; in a technological revolution.
and his said an NHS app and local medical centres will transform .
, they said it was “change or bust”;.
Focus will be pulled out of expensive and into community health clinics, at-home care and online booking and chat systems.
Experts hailed their ambitions but warned the changes will take time and money, and that similar plans had failed.
Sir Keir said: “We need to make the NHS fit for the future with that is available to us now.”;
The 168-page plan said the NHS must stop being a “technological laggard”; and “make the move from bricks to clicks”;.
Sir Keir added: “Entire industries have reorganised around apps — retail, transport, finance, weather — why not the NHS?
“It will be like having a doctor in your pocket, providing you with 24-hour advice, seven days a week.”;
Health Secretary Mr Streeting said: “People will feel the change over the course of this Parliament and of course this is also a plan for the decade.
“We know the change in our plan is possible because it’s already happened.
“We toured the length and breadth of the country and scouted the world for the best examples of reform.
“We will take the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS.”;
