It comes after pressure from trade unions urging the government to include hospital cleaners, porters and care workers
‘We want to ensure families have the support they need and so this will be effective immediately and retrospectively.’
He said: ‘All I can say is, as a doctor who has worked on the front line for many years, how much I value the entire multidisciplinary teams – so everybody from porter to manager to administrator to nurse who absolutely work together as a team in managing this sort of crisis but also in the day-to-day care that the NHS provides.
Professor Stephen Powis said the are huge numbers of people working behind the scenes who don’t often get praise
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