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Apr 2021
Prime minister urged to end NHS shortages now
NHS bosses, doctors and nurses have pleaded with Boris Johnson to make a financial commitment to finally end the chronic lack of staff across the health service.
In a letter published earlier this week, they warn Mr Johnson that the strain of working in a perpetually understaffed service is so great that it risks creating an exodus of frontline personnel.
They have urged the government to devise an urgent plan that will significantly increase the size of the NHS workforce in England by the time of the next general election in 2024.
The intervention comes after the last NHS staff surgery found that increasing numbers feel their work is making them sick and that nearly two-thirds believe they cannot function in their roles properly because their organisation has too few people.
The letter draws attention to the fact that the NHS in England currently has nearly 90,000 vacancies. “We are very aware of the strain and stress placed on NHS services and teams by the vacancies we see across services and roles. There is a very real risk that these vacancies are the greatest threat to the retention of our people.”
The letter also refers to the People Plan drawn up by NHS Improvement, adding “It appears that no such plan can be developed because the government has not been able to commit to funding the implications … Billions in additional investment will be required by the end of this parliament to address these longstanding issues of supply and education.”
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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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