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Labour attacks NHS cut plans

Labour has said proposals to make significant cuts to healthcare services across England are a "damning indictment" of what it called the government's "underfunding and mismanagement of the NHS".

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ has seen draft sustainability and transformation plans which propose ward closures, cuts in bed numbers and changes to A&E and GP care in 44 areas.

Shadow health secretary Diane Abbott told the World At One the NHS was heading for a huge deficit by 2020.

(Photo: Diana Abbott. Credit: Getty Images)

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