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Health Secretary Victoria Atkins talks to the media outside the BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture date: Sunday December 3, 2023.
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NURSING leaders have accused the government’s new Health Secretary Victoria Atkins of insulting NHS staff by blaming them for record waiting lists.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), representing more than 300,000 nurses, warned a looming winter crisis in the NHS was leaving nurses caring for so many patients that their treatment was “unsafe.”
Ms Atkins, who was appointed to the role just under three weeks ago during a reshuffle by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, said in a TV interview that avoiding a winter crisis in the NHS was her “number one priority.”
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’