Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith has accused the Tories of planning to privatise the NHS ahead of a major speech on the health service.
He plans to use Department of Health (DH) figures to show the amount spent on private sector health services has more than doubled to 7.6% of the NHS budget since the Conservatives came to power in 2010.
Mr Smith will accuse Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt of "covering-up" the true level of private sector spending after initial estimates for 2014/15 were revised up by more than a billion pounds.
He will also draw attention to recommendations from regulator NHS Improvement - set up by Mr Hunt - which say private sector providers are being "under-utilised".
Mr Smith said: "It is now clear that Theresa May has given Jeremy Hunt the green light to start privatising our health service.
"Within days of his reappointment as Health Secretary he had officials drawing up secret plans to privatise the NHS.
"Like many families across Britain my family is relying on the health service at this very moment.
"The NHS is our country's most valued institution, and people will be shocked to hear that the Tories have been putting together a secret plan to privatise it.
"We all rightly contribute to the NHS through our taxes, but we must make sure that money is spent on doctors and nurses, and not lining the pockets of private sector shareholders.
"It just goes to show you can't trust the Tories with our NHS. Under their rule it is in crisis yet again, with waiting lists growing and hospitals dangerously understaffed."
At the event in Salford, Greater Manchester, Mr Smith will pledge to halt Tory "privatisation" and health reforms, while boosting NHS spending by at least 4% every year.
The speech comes after five of the 130,000 members excluded from voting in the leadership election dropped their legal challenge against the decision of Labour's ruling body to bar them from voting because they had not joined by 12 January.
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