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NHS staff were working more than 1.1 million hours of unpaid overtime every week even before Covid-19 hit, Labour analysis revealed last night.
The most recent NHS staff survey shows that before the pandemic more than 300,000 NHS staff said they worked extra hours for free every week — at an average of 2.2 hours a week.
Almost half of NHS staff said their organisation did not have enough staff for them to do their job properly.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN