NHS staff goodwill is exhausted, Wes Streeting tells podcast
The shadow health and social care secretary discusses Labour’s plans for NHS nurse staffing levels and action on pay and conditions
Nursing and other staff cannot continue to be ‘emotionally blackmailed’ into keeping the NHS going, the Nursing Standard podcast hears.
NHS cannot continue running on goodwill, says Wes Streeting
In an interview on the latest episode, shadow health and social care secretary Wes Streeting speaks about how NHS staff goodwill is now exhausted.
Mr Streeting tells senior news reporter Alison Stacey that action on pay and working conditions must happen to restore professional pride in nursing.
He also talks about his own experience of receiving treatment for kidney cancer, saying the care he received was fantastic, as were NHS staff, but there were too few of them.
Labour’s plans to improve staffing levels
The episode is an extract of a longer interview with Nursing Standard ahead of the UK going to the polls in the general election on 4 July.
To read the full interview, in which Mr Streeting talks about Labour’s plans for nurses’ pay and staff recruitment and retention, click the link below.
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