Extracts from second reading debate (Commons) of the Health and Care Bill - July 14
Thursday, 15 July 2021 07:24
Olivia Blake (Sheffield, Hallam) (Lab):...The Royal College of
Nursing has found that 36% of nurses are thinking of leaving the
profession, and YouGov reports that a quarter of NHS workers are
more likely to quit their job than they were a year ago, due to low
pay and understaffing. While Ministers have clapped for carers on
their doorsteps, many of my constituents who have worked in the NHS
rightly say that they do not want platitudes. They want to be
heard. They want a proper pay rise and...Request free trial
(Sheffield, Hallam) (Lab):...The Royal College of Nursing has found that
36% of nurses are thinking of leaving the profession, and YouGov
reports that a quarter of NHS workers are more likely to quit their
job than they were a year ago, due to low pay and understaffing.
While Ministers have clapped for carers on their doorsteps, many of
my constituents who have worked in the NHS rightly say that they do
not want platitudes. They want to be heard. They want a proper pay
rise and an end to top-down reforms that do nothing to address the
real needs and their real concerns...
(Hemsworth) (Lab):...There are two competing
views of health provision facing each other. Either health is about
an ethos of care or it is about making money. This Bill leads in
one direction. The Government do not want to fund the NHS properly,
so they are trying to entice more private money into health, often
from sources, we note, from the Tory party. Privatisation puts one
person’s wealth in front of another person’s health. We should look
at the pages of the American health service providers today
salivating at the prospect of growing NHS waiting lists, and now,
so-called independent providers are to be invited to sit on boards
that actually manage the NHS budgets. The idea of profiteering from
someone else’s ill health is repulsive to most British people, yet
it is intrinsic to this Bill. We can call it only one thing:
parasitic capitalism. Along with the Royal College of Nursing the
British Medical Association and many other practitioners, we must
resist the creeping destruction of our NHS...
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