Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has pledged to overturn groundbreaking plans to devolve £6bn health and care funding Greater Manchester, should Labour assume power after next May's General Election.

Responding to last week's announcement – judged by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens as ‘the greatest integration and devolution of care funding since the creation of the NHS in 1948' – Mr Burnham said Greater Manchester's local leaders ‘need to be vigilant against the danger that this Government is only offering to devolve a funding crisis and then blame us when things get worse'.