Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, said the move would tackle the huge human and financial waste of beds being occupied by patients fit to leave but stuck there because a lack of care outside the hospital.
If Labour wins the general election on 4 July it will funnel some of the NHS's 165bn budget into the plan as one of a series of immediate changes intended to relieve the crisis in the health service.
That initiative which it launched as a way of avoiding a winter crisis in 2022-23 has freed up 165 beds, helped reduce the number of patients who are admitted avoidably and saved the trust between 17m and 23m, it has estimated.
Streeting, who cited the Leeds approach as a model to follow when speaking to members of the Medical Journalists' Association.
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