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Over in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is at the dispatch box, delivering a statement on the government's 10-year plan for the NHS.

It's the plan we've been hearing about already this morning after Streeting, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves spoke at a hospital in east London - so we won't be bringing you live updates of his statement.

If you scroll down and read some of our earlier posts, though, you can read more on the 10-year plan for a "Neighbourhood Health Service" in England. The BBC's health reporter Jim Reed has also done a deep-dive into the plan's details.

You can also watch Streeting's remarks live at the top of the page. We'll bring you further updates - including the Conservative response to the plans - in our next few posts.

On the NHS plans:

• Keir Starmer promised that three big changes would transform UK healthcare: moving the NHS away from being a "sickness service", shifting to a community neighbourhood service approach, and digitising the NHS's services
• Quizzed on how this reform is different to any other, Starmer emphasised that he wants to work with the NHS, instead of "blaming them when anything goes wrong"
• "Only a Labour government" can do this, he suggested, while repeating his family ties to the service (both his mother and sister worked for the NHS)

On Reeves:

• The PM hugged Rachel Reeves before taking questions from journalists - during which he reiterated the chancellor's explanation that her tears at Prime Minister's Questions yesterday were over a "personal issue"
• Starmer refused to give any other details, saying he wouldn't speak for Reeves, but emphasised that he was "probably the last" to notice anything was wrong with the chancellor as he was busy answering questions from MPs
• He called this a "straightforward, human, common sense explanation"

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In the final question we're bringing you from this news conference, Starmer's asked what in his NHS plans will be different.

Starmer says it's that he's using every resource and has the "resolve to see this through".

"It's only Labour governments that can do this," he tells those gathered. "It's only a Labour government that can therefore make the NHS fit for the future."

And, he goes on, the way to enact this change is for the government to work in step with the NHS "rather than blaming them when anything goes wrong".

That's it for our coverage of Starmer and Reeves speaking in east London, stay tuned for a round-up and further political updates.

Moving on from questions about Reeves, Starmer's also asked "how he got the welfare bill so wrong" after the government won a vote on Tuesday - but only after offering last-minute concessions.

He's also asked what he plans to do to rebuild trust and authority.

He replies by listing government achievements, including bringing in foreign investment, free school meals, and extra NHS appointments.

But the journalist isn't satisfied: "You've totally ignored my question."

Starmer insists he hasn’t, saying it’s important for people to look at what the government has delivered over the whole year.

In a follow-up question on the chancellor, Starmer is asked why he did not show support to the chancellor during yesterday’s PMQs.

He says he was busy answering questions as they came from the opposition.

"In PMQs, it was like bang bang bang... that's what it was yesterday, and therefore, I was probably the last to appreciate anything going on in the chamber."

This is a "straightforward, human, common sense explanation", he adds.

Starmer is taking questions from journalists now.

When asked about the chancellor's experience yesterday in the Commons, the PM says Reeves has made clear her tears were over a "personal issue" and that he "certainly won't" speak for her or say anymore.

He adds that today's NHS plans are a result Reeves's hard work and she will be in post for "many years to come".

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Next up, Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to those gathered at this hospital in east London.

He talks about the new NHS plan launched today, saying it will make three big changes.

First, he says the NHS will move away from being just a "sickness service" to a health service that focuses on preventing disease in the first place.

Second, Starmer says the NHS will shift from being dominated by hospitals to becoming a community neighbourhood health service.

Finally, he says the third shift is moving from an "analogue" NHS to a "truly digital health service". This means revamping the NHS app, and using technology like AI to save lives and give people more time to care, the prime minister says.

Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent

Rachel Reeves’s presence at this speech is deliberately symbolic.

This is the government saying in clear, visible terms: the chancellor is going nowhere.

Keir Starmer said as much to Nick Robinson last night. He has thrown his arms around her today too in an attempt to draw a line under yesterday.

When Reeves left the stage a few minutes ago, clearing the way for Keir Starmer to speak, the pair embraced.

All eyes were on them, hours after the prime minister said he and Reeves were in "lockstep", telling the BBC that "she will be chancellor for a very long time to come".

Starmer had been seeking to calm the markets and end speculation about Reeves' future after the chancellor was seen crying in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves is up next, and receives a big round of applause when she takes to the stage with a smile on her face.

She says that the government is "spending money on taxpayers' priorities," and that "wouldn't have been possible without the measures we took in the Budget."

She adds that the Budget "fixed the foundations" and put the economy back on track.

She says the new plan is the "right way forward" for the people of the UK and "our nation's finances".

Reeves adds: "I am proud that with this plan, the NHS will always be there for those who need it."

At a hospital in East London, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is speaking about the government's new plans for the NHS.

He says that it falls to the current generation to rebuild the National Health Service, "to protect in this century what Attlee's government built for the last".

Streeting says this means high quality healthcare, "not according to wealth but according to needs".

He repeats that it is "change or bust" for the NHS, emphasising: "we choose change".

Streeting then suggests that he is sometimes told NHS staff are resistant to change, but responds that they are in fact crying out for it.

In fact, he says, they are the ones who have to suffer the "moral injury of seeing their patients treated in unfit conditions."

Just before he finishes, Streeting says he will head to Parliament to give a statement on the plans.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves follows him next on stage.

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We’ve got more comments from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who insists Chancellor Rachel Reeves is "fine" after her tearful appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday.

Speaking to Virgin Radio this morning, Starmer says he had a long chat with Reeves last night and repeats that the episode was down to a "purely personal" matter.

"She’s very resilient and strong is Rachel. She’s driven through lots of change in the Labour Party," he says. "I’ve seen her resilience first hand. I admire it. She’s a really powerful woman, and she’s also very widely respected."

Starmer also suggests that the "messages of concern" Reeves has received since PMQs show "the great affection and respect in which she is held".

Patients will want to know when this will make a differencepublished at 09:43 British Summer Time 3 July

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Hugh Pym
Health editor

There’s no doubting the ambition of the NHS plan for England.

Moving from an essentially hospital-centric system to one where the majority of outpatient appointments will be in local health centres will be a major undertaking.

Getting staff from different professions ranging from nursing to pharmacy under one roof won’t be straightforward. Sorting out the payment systems which currently incentivise hospitals to treat more patients will be challenging.

Health think tanks and charities have welcomed the thinking behind this and the long-term goal of a neighbourhood health service. But more funding will be needed for buildings and equipment.

Patients will want to know when this will make a difference to booking appointments.

There’s much still to do for NHS leaders and ministers.

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We’ve been hearing from different organisations about the government’s new NHS plans.

The Royal College of Nursing says the real issue is that the number of nurses and health visitors has fallen by thousands over the last 15 years. The union says the PM needs to "back up his plan with a clear one to turn around the shortage of nurses in all local communities."

The British Medical Association says big questions remain about who will staff any new services and how they’ll be funded. Its council chair says: "The limited workforce, who are already feeling undervalued must not be moved around like pieces on a chess board or made to work even harder."

The Royal College of GPs says it’s worried about the state of many GP practices, which are "in dire need of renovation", and a lack of jobs for newly-qualified GPs.

Similarly, the head of NHS Confederation says new neighbourhood health services would need sustained investment in buildings and digital infrastructure.

The government has been working to improve NHS waiting times since they took office.

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The head of health think tank the Nuffield Trust says the government's NHS plan has the "right aspiration" but warns that moving care closer to home "doesn't mean care on the cheap".

"Let's be under no illusion: this is not a money saving measure," Thea Stein says.

"Simply saying that the approach will be rolled out, without full details on how to bring it about, casts doubt on whether it will stick."

The government says the money to pay for the new service will come from the £29bn boost to NHS funding announced in the last Budget.

A new workforce plan for the health service is expected to be announced later this year which will set targets to recruit new staff to work in community care.

Let's step away from what politicians are saying and head to the frontlines.

Penny Blackwell, clinical director for neighbourhood care in Derby and Derbyshire, has been trialling the neighbourhood concept since 2019.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she says her team work across health and social care to see those in the community that are unable to leave home without support.

It's not a "new or add-on service", she says. "It’s a teaming up or a better coordination of existing services."

She adds the care they provide at home prevented around 1,000 unnecessary hospital trips over the last year and 700 unplanned admissions each year.

Teams aren't working in isolation from hospitals, Blackwell says, they're working together.

"The beauty of this is the team also has time to be able to pay attention to preventative care," she says, adding that they also support patients with "wider determinants" such as housing, loneliness, and mental health.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has given more detail to BBC Breakfast about the government's new NHS plans.

The government is rolling out Neighbourhood Health Services over the next few years, he says.

Asked if the plan means there will be a building, Streeting says he’s standing in one now in east London.

He explains the centres will offer a range of NHS services "under one roof" - including GP appointments, diagnostic tests, scans, blood tests and dentistry.

The centres will also provide "same day care for minor injuries" so people don’t have to go to a busy A&E.

Streeting says the focus will be on bringing these services to "areas of high deprivation or rural or coastal communities where the nearest hospital is far away."

Health Secretary Wes Streeting is on BBC Breakfast to talk about the NHS plans - but first he's asked about Rachel Reeves' tears in the Commons yesterday.

Streeting says we all have times when "things have been going in our own lives and we take ourselves off to work and when you walk through the front door it’s not like those problems are left behind".

The difference is that politicians are "on show", he says.

But Reeves is here stay as chancellor, he insists. "She is tough she will bounce back."

Asked about shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick’s comments that Reeves' career is now dead, Streeting condemns the comments, saying: "When people show you who they are, believe them."

He notes the chancellor did have support from some Conservatives such as Sajid Javid - Streeting claims his decency is in "short supply in the modern Conservative Party".

Government ministers are out and about, promoting their plans for the NHS - and we'll have new comments from Health Secretary Wes Streeting next.

But speaking about the plans, Sarah Woolnough - the chief executive of the health think-tank, the King’s Fund - asks: "Why it will be different this time?"

"When will it mean people can see a GP more easily, or get mental health support for their child, or not wait hours in A&E?" Woolnough asks.

She says "there is plenty to welcome in the details we’ve seen so far", with the "biggest changes" including the new Neighbourhood Health Centres and a bigger role for the NHS app.

But she adds that the shift of care from hospital to community "is not new", and that "some of the measures outlined to improve health" doesn't felt "sufficiently radical".

"Unlike previous plans, this plan will not come with promises of significantly more funding or staff to deliver the improvements patients need."