Ed Miliband is to set out Labour's "10-year plan" for the NHS including longer home visits by social care workers.
The Labour leader will also pledge new safety checks to identify people at risk of hospitalisation and to recruit 5,000 new home care workers.
There was an "iron curtain" between the NHS and social care, he told the BBC.
All of the major parties have pledged what they say is enough money to maintain NHS services in the next Parliament after the general election.
The Conservatives say they would ring-fence and "protect" the NHS budget while the Liberal Democrats have promised to meet "in full" the £8bn extra NHS managers say is needed by 2020 and UKIP has said it would commit an extra £3bn a year to the service.
'Perilous moment'Labour have promised to keep the NHS ring-fence and spend an extra £2.5bn a year across the UK by the end of the next Parliament.
In a speech in Trafford, Greater Manchester on Tuesday, Mr Miliband will say the NHS faces "its most perilous moment" at May's general election.
Labour's previously-announced NHS pledges include 20,000 more nurses and providing cancer tests and results within a week.
The 5,000 extra home care workers would treat terminally ill people in their own beds.
Mr Miliband will also spell out financial incentives for social care workers to spend more than 15 minutes on home visits.
Limiting visits to 15 minutes is "a symbol of what has gone wrong in the NHS where failure and false economies threaten the financial future of the service", Mr Miliband will say.
Care visitsLabour said care workers often had to choose between preparing a meal for people they are visiting or taking them to the toilet because of time constraints.
The party is putting the NHS at the heart of its bid to win the general election, which is 100 days away.
Mr Miliband told BBC Breakfast that the election represented a "big fight for the future of the NHS" and that the Conservatives had betrayed promises made in 2010.
He rejected suggestions his blueprint was another top-down reorganisation, saying it was a considered plan to "join up services from home to hospital".
"It is not about the NHS standing still but being changed," he said.
The health service, he said, had lost a million bed hours last year because there was no-where for elderly patients to go once they were discharged and increased support for home care would save money elsewhere in the system.
"A £50 grab rail in a home can be a life saver or at least stop elderly people ending up in hospital," he said.
The £2.5bn in funding to support the extra care professionals, as well as additional doctors, nurses and midwives, would be "raised swiftly" once Labour came to power, he insisted.
Benefit plansMeanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron will focus on the economy on Tuesday, promising a law to reduce the annual household welfare cap to £23,000 from the current £26,000 in the first week of a Conservative government.
He will say the proceeds from the reduction would be spent on three million new apprentices.
Mr Cameron told the BBC that reforming the welfare system was the "best way to tackle poverty and spread advantage".
He said: "The criticism of our benefit cap, which was set at £26,000, in many parts of the country was that it was too high.
"So we think that reducing it to £23,000 will help to get more families back into work and we'll use the savings from that money to make sure we train three million apprentices in the next Parliament.
"We've trained two million in this Parliament and we think this is absolutely crucial to making sure that more young people can get good, well-paid, successful jobs and build a secure future for themselves and their families."
The Lib Dems will launch an online advertisement, based on a Conservative election poster, arguing they would cut less than the Tories and borrow less than Labour.
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