NHS WORKFORCE PLAN
There will be a major expansion in training places for health staff in England, under a “historic” 15-year plan to fill NHS staffing shortages.
It includes more university places for medical and nursing students and a greater emphasis on apprenticeships with the first ever scheme for doctors.
A consultation on whether five-year medical degrees could be shortened by a year will also be launched.
The plan has taken more than a year longer to be published than expected.
This plan will come too late for the millions of people who have suffered in pain or died in hospital corridors waiting for treatment because the Conservative Government refused to act.
Patients across the country are languishing on NHS waiting lists or struggling to get a GP appointment because the Conservatives have driven our health services into the ground for years.
After promises of new hospitals that were never built and extra GPs who were never recruited, the public will rightly judge this Conservative government on their actions not their words.
