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.