THE Tory government’s long-delayed and much-trailed NHS workforce plan is “too little, too late and ignores more than a decade of eroding take-home pay,” critics have warned. 

The proposals, published today after first being promised earlier this year, include commitments to double university places for medical students, launch an new apprenticeship scheme for doctors and shorten medical degrees.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak claimed the belated plan – published ahead of the austerity-hit NHS’s 75^th anniversary next week – was “historic and had taken time to get right.”