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Patients will be able to use a new 'online hospital' from 2027, with millions of extra appointments created to slash waits for care, Keir Starmer will announce.

From 2027, the newly created NHS Online will radically reshape the system by connecting people to specialist doctors through the NHS App. The Prime Minister will declare a "new world is coming" as he unveils the plans in his keynote speech to Labour conference.

The Mirror reports that he will say: "In decades to come, I want people to look back on this moment as the moment we renewed the NHS for a new world."

Patients will be able to access prescriptions, get referred for scans and tests and receive clinical advice from their own homes. High priority treatments with long waiting lists will be targeted first,

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