'Strikes and funding to hit waiting lists pledge'

LABOUR is on course to break its promise to cut NHS waiting lists, after failing to provide a significant increase in health funding or end strikes.

- BY JONATHAN WALKER Whitehall Editor

A ‘chaotic and incoherent” attempt to make the health service more cost-efficient, including abolishing the NHS England quango that oversees it, has actually made its problems worse.

The damning findings were published in a new report by independent think-tank the Institute for Government, which said Health Secretary Wes Streeting could be left with “a disastrous legacy’