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Sir Keir offers up ‘dangerous false solutions’ to crisis-hit NHS, campaigners warn
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre) is shown a robot that is capable of surgical procedures on patients, during his visit to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in December 2022

LABOUR’S leadership is offering “dangerous false solutions” to the crisis-hit NHS, campaigners warned today after Sir Keir Starmer said the health service must “reform or die.”

Jeremy Corbyn’s successor told the BBC that the NHS should always be free at the point of use, but that there is also a “role for the private sector,” including with help clearing massive waiting lists.

The party leader also proposed allowing patients to make self-referrals for conditions like back pain to “cut bureaucracy,” but he did not mention pay.

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