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Elderly people in England are to have a named clinician responsible for their care when they leave hospital, the health secretary has said.
The initiative is to be unveiled at an event to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the National Health Service.
Mr Hunt says it will to help create a "more personal service".
But Labour have said the NHS' anniversary is overshadowed by a "real sense of worry about where the NHS is heading".
At an event at Guy's Hospital in London, Mr Hunt will announce that a named doctor or nurse will be responsible for the patients "at all times".
He will say: "As we celebrate, we also reflect. The world today is very different to 1948. The old model was curable illnesses where you went into hospital unwell and came out better.
"Yet most people now leave hospital with long-term conditions which need to be supported and managed at home.
"So the challenge today is to provide integrated, co-ordinated, out of hospital care. Something where the NHS, with our tradition of family doctors and primary care, could lead the world.
"But to do that we need to know that there is a clinician accountable for vulnerable older people in the community, just as there is a consultant responsible for them in hospital...
"They should be named so that patients, families and carers all know where the buck stops."
'Wrong path'
Mr Hunt will say the eight million people with diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart disease "need radically different models of care to what the NHS has been accustomed to" and could benefit from the plan.
The health secretary is also to launch a new organisation, Genomics England, to map the DNA of 100,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases.
Mr Hunt said: "If we really want this to be the century of personalised care, then we must radically improve our understanding of disease and how to design treatments better tailored to individual patients.
"Combine the information from genomes with the information in digital medical records - all done with proper consent - and you have the most remarkable treasure trove about the make-up of diseases with huge clues as to how to treat them."
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the NHS anniversary was being overshadowed by "a real sense of worry about where the NHS is heading under David Cameron".
"Patients and staff have precious little faith that the NHS is safe in this government's hands," he said.
"Cameron's reorganisation has put the NHS on the wrong path - a fast-track to fragmentation and privatisation."
But speaking ahead of his announcement Mr Hunt said: "The NHS has done more to improve people's lives than any other institution in our history, and its excellence makes us the envy of the world.
"We have taken real steps to protect the NHS and to give it a sustainable future."
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