Patients will be treated by GPs rather than getting specialist care in hospitals under radical reforms as Keir Starmer battles to tackle the NHS crisis.
Routine appointments will be dealt with in community services close to patients' homes in a move they believe could 'fix the waiting list'.
The health service will also ramp-up technology meaning patients will have less in-person appointments - instead using like the NHS app and wearable devices to monitor patients remotely.
NHS bosses claim half of the 135 million hospital outpatient appointments every year are 'pointless' and follow-ups and consultations could instead be done in high-street surgeries.
It comes as the government is set to launch a ten-year plan to create a 'neighbourhood health service', The Times reports.
