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Health Secretary Wes Streeting
NURSING leaders told Health Secretary Wes Streeting today that plans to train thousands more GPs must include solving the causes of the nursing workforce crisis.
Mr Streeting has pledged to create a “transformed health service” after ordering officials to tweak the NHS workforce plan to address the staffing crisis.
His “refresh” will steer the plan towards training more GPs, community nurses and health visitors in order to support the services nearest to patients’ homes
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
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
Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’