What is the long-term plan for the NHS?

Government claims half a million lives could be saved in next decade by focusing on prevention

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Prime Minister Theresa May and NHS England boss Simon Stevens will today publish a new long-term plan for the health service that they claim could save an additional 500,000 lives by 2029.

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