This is an impressive piece of work, but ministers face several daunting obstacles

The government's 10-year health plan to revive, modernise and future-proof the NHS in England has arrived as the service is facing a dual crisis.

- Denis Campbell

It has been unable for a decade now to provide the rapid access - to GPs, A&E care, surgery, ambulances and mental health support - that people need and used to get. Normalisation of anxiety-inducing, frightening and sometimes fatal delay has produced a less tangible, but also dangerous, crisis of public satisfaction, born of a profound loss of trust that the NHS will be there for them or their loved ones when they need it.