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‘Wes Streeting’s job is not to enrich private healthcare’
Campaigners slam Labour’s plans to send NHS staff to private hospitals for treatment
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre) and shadow health secretary Wes Streeting (left), walk with Labour's candidate for the East Midlands Mayor and current chair of the Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, Claire Ward, during a visit to Kings Mill Hospital in Sutton-in-Ashfield, April 8, 2024
CAMPAIGNERS have slammed shadow health secretary Wes Streeting’s plan to send NHS doctors and nurses to private hospitals for treatment.
Mr Streeting announced last weekend that Labour has struck a deal with private provider Nuffield Health to treat 4,000 NHS doctors and nurses who have back, knee and hip problems each year.
Doctors’ Association UK co-chairwoman Helen Fernandes said: “The NHS should be there for everyone, but it has been chronically underfunded and understaffed over the past decade which has left it struggling to keep pace with demand.
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