“Streeting [shadow health minister] said NHS figures show it is short 10,500 doctors and 47,000 nurses – but no real workforce plan could be produced until there was an independent assessment of the shortage.
Earlier this year, the government blocked an amendment to the health and care bill, orchestrated by the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, which would have required ministers to commission an independent assessment of the numbers of doctors and nurses needed over the next 5, 10 and 20 years.”
Of course it won’t. But then, they don’t really want it to do they? They’re already kicking out the idea of an insurance based system on the BBC, inferring that it’s a reasonable replacement. Your NHS is being stolen from right under your noses folks.
To the stunned surprise of absolutely no-one.
Remember before the Brexit referendum when Cameron was trying to carve up the NHS and monetise it under the guise of patient choice and competition?
We got a reprieve with Brexit and the pandemic, looks like we need something else to distract the Tories from their horrific plan.
I think it’s time to poke the bear. Does anyone have Putin’s number?
The words fix and NHS don’t apply when conservative
random headline generator could just be “tory ___ plan will not fix ____”
What plan? All she said is ‘people should get appointments’. She didn’t say anything about how.
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“Streeting [shadow health minister] said NHS figures show it is short 10,500 doctors and 47,000 nurses – but no real workforce plan could be produced until there was an independent assessment of the shortage.
Earlier this year, the government blocked an amendment to the health and care bill, orchestrated by the former health secretary Jeremy Hunt, which would have required ministers to commission an independent assessment of the numbers of doctors and nurses needed over the next 5, 10 and 20 years.”
See also:
[Changing doctors pensions to discourage working](https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2019/08/20/new-changes-to-doctors-pensions/)
[Removing nursing bursaries to discourage people from choosing nusing](https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/education/nursing-degree-applicants-fall-23-in-wake-of-bursary-loss-02-02-2017/)
[Happily watching waiting lists rise steadily since 2010](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-blasts-soaring-waiting-times-for-treatable-illnesses-under-tories)
Of course it won’t. But then, they don’t really want it to do they? They’re already kicking out the idea of an insurance based system on the BBC, inferring that it’s a reasonable replacement. Your NHS is being stolen from right under your noses folks.
To the stunned surprise of absolutely no-one.
Remember before the Brexit referendum when Cameron was trying to carve up the NHS and monetise it under the guise of patient choice and competition?
We got a reprieve with Brexit and the pandemic, looks like we need something else to distract the Tories from their horrific plan.
I think it’s time to poke the bear. Does anyone have Putin’s number?
The words fix and NHS don’t apply when conservative
random headline generator could just be “tory ___ plan will not fix ____”
What plan? All she said is ‘people should get appointments’. She didn’t say anything about how.