Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has vowed that a Labour government would introduce regulation of NHS managers following the conviction of Lucy Letby.
He also announced incentives for GPs to offer patients multiple appointments with the same doctor.
Senior NHS managers found to have committed serious misconduct would be struck off under a Labour government.
Streeting, said the “appalling murders” committed by Lucy Letby had cemented the case for regulation of health service leaders, as he pledged: “Labour will introduce this in office and make sure those found guilty of serious misconduct are disbarred.”
Writing in the Telegraph this morning he said that “The changes are intended to be cost neutral, with funding redistributed so practices with a poor record on continuity of care… receive less”
He said that the Government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Steve Barclay is in “too weak a position to stand up for patients’ interests”.
Labour would reverse the decline in GPs by doubling the number of medical schools and providing mental health support in “every school and community”.
Labour’s plan to boost GPs would include “providing mental health support in every school and community, letting patients book appropriate specialist appointments or tests without a GP referral and cutting red tape to expand the role of pharmacists”.
