NHS BOSSES raised concerns about Tory efforts to tackle mounting staff shortages today after Health Secretary Steve Barclay refused to commit to publishing a long-awaited workforce plan in the near future.
NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery warned it appeared the proposals, which she previously thought were “imminent,” had been delayed.
The warning came after Mr Barclay told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that the plan would only be published “before the next general election,” due by January 2025.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN



