Starmer’s NHS reforms are a promising if limited start to revolution required to drag it into 21st century

THE NHS reforms announced yesterday are a promising if limited start to the revolution required to drag a system designed for 1948 into the 21st Century.

It is depressing to think that diagnostic tests being made available locally 12 hours a day, seven days a week represent a giant leap forward — but that is where we are.

Meanwhile expanding the role of private hospitals in our state system is a breakthrough we have urged for years.