Sir Keir Starmer and his health secretary Wes Streeting have spoken to healthcare staff at Epsom Hospital in Surrey ahead of the prime minister's speech on NHS reform. Starmer has set out plans to cut waiting lists by embracing artificial intelligence, upgrading the NHS app and making diagnostic centres more accessible for patients. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So this is the way it all starts for us, so patients will come in from reception, we've
00:29got six cubicles. So when they've been at reception, do they come in here? Our patients
00:34are staggered in, so our patients are given specific times, so teams will come in and
00:38attend to the patient, and the nursing team will come in as well.
00:45Can I just say how brilliant the work is that you're doing here? I'm proud of what you're
01:04doing, you must be really proud of it. It feels like a good, strong team working together.
01:12And you're getting people back out and back home pretty quickly as well, aren't you? Which
01:15is fantastic from their point of view, because everybody in the end would much rather be
01:19at home, but from your point of view that's great as well, because it means you're just
01:23freeing up the space.