, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary,
responding to the publication of the NHS workforce plan, said:
“The Conservatives have finally admitted they have no ideas of
their own, so are adopting Labour’s plan to train the doctors and
nurses the NHS needs. They should have done this a decade ago -
then the NHS would have enough staff today.
“Instead, the health service is short of 150,000 staff and this
announcement will take years to have an impact.
“Patients are waiting longer than ever before for operations, in
A&E, or for an ambulance. The Conservatives have no plan to
keep the staff working in the NHS, no plan to end the crippling
strikes, and no plans to reform the NHS.
“It will be left to the next Labour government to rescue the NHS
from the biggest crisis in its history, and renew the service to
make it fit for the future.”
Ends
Notes
- If the Government had launched this plan 8 years ago, there
would be enough doctors and nurses in the NHS today to fill the
8,500 doctors and 40,000 nurses vacancies in the NHS today.
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-vacancies-survey/april-2015---march-2023-experimental-statistics
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said in September when Labour
published its workforce plan that it was “something I very much
hope the government adopts on the basis that smart governments
always nick the best ideas of their opponents.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-hunt-privately-backed-labours-28393711
