Rishi Sunak took a taxpayer-funded private jet to visit a healthcare centre in Leeds.
The Prime Minister was pictured boarding the RAF plane on Monday morning for the visit as he scrambles to get a grip on the crisis engulfing the NHS.
Downing Street defended his decision to make the 200-mile journey on a luxury business jet, rather than by public transport.
A train from London to Leeds takes around 2 hours 15 minutes - with a day return in standard class available for around £100.
If the PM wanted to travel first class for the trip, it would set him back around £155.
Leeds was going to get a high-speed rail line from London, until the Tories scrapped it.
It comes after he urged other nations to stick to their climate commitments on a visit to the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, in Egypt last year.
The PM's official spokesman said: "The transport the Prime Minister takes will vary and always be done with any interests of what's the most effective use of his time, allowing him to get around the entirety of the UK when there is a great deal of pressure on his time.
"It will vary on what is the most appropriate."
Mr Sunak travelled to Rutland Lodge Medical Practice on Monday to meet patients and carers at a healthcare centre focused on treating patients at home rather than in hospital.
Amid crisis scenes in hospitals, the Government announced plans to buy up thousands of care home beds to free up beds and ease pressure on A&E and ambulances.
In a statement to Parliament yesterday the Health Secretary Steve Barclay said the measure will be funded by a £200million pot - taken from existing Department of Health and Social Care budgets.
Local councils will be given allocations of how many beds need to be "block-booked" in community settings - but the allocations and funding per area have not yet been confirmed.
It comes after Mr Sunak splashed out more than £10,000 to fly by private helicopter to a glitzy Tory dinner in Wales in May last year, the Mirror previously revealed.
The millionaire Chancellor paid for a return flight from Battersea heliport to the Conservative conference in Newtown, Powys, out of his own pocket.
Labour's Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said: "Families will be rightly angered by this show of extravagance by Rishi Sunak.
"Patients and staff are crying out for action from this government in the midst of a crisis in our NHS while the Prime Minister jets from London to Leeds for a photo op.
"The Prime Minister must come clean about how much taxpayers' money was wasted on this 36-minute plane journey for a three-hour visit at the height of a cost-of-living crisis."
