New health centres to cut NHS waiting lists

Hubs to be open for 12 hours six days a week

- By Jonathan Walker Whitehall Editor

NEW local health centres will provide treatment from nurses, doctors and paramedics in a bid to cut “devastating” hospital waiting lists.

Open for 12 hours a day, six days a week, at least 200 Neighbourhood Health Service centres will also offer debt advice, employment support and help to stop smoking or lose weight.

It is part of a 10-year health plan to be launched by PM Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting today, to end what the Government calls a “crisis” in the NHS.

Other key measures include making more use of AI and stepping up measures to prevent people falling ill in the first place.

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