CAMPAIGNERS have slammed shadow health secretary Wes Streeting’s plan to send NHS doctors and nurses to private hospitals for treatment.

Mr Streeting announced last weekend that Labour has struck a deal with private provider Nuffield Health to treat 4,000 NHS doctors and nurses who have back, knee and hip problems each year.

Doctors’ Association UK co-chairwoman Helen Fernandes said: “The NHS should be there for everyone, but it has been chronically underfunded and understaffed over the past decade which has left it struggling to keep pace with demand.