Jeremy Hunt admits that he 'privately thought the NHS needed more resources' while he was Health Secretary but 'had to follow collective responsibility'. Jeremy_Hunt
Jeremy Hunt has said that when he was Health Secretary he "had to follow collective responsibility" but "privately" thought the NHS needed more resources, doctors, nurses, and midwives.
Guaranteed pay increases linked to the time-in-the-job were replaced by a scheme that linked pay to progression through training stages and therefore caused pay to increase at a slower rate. The new contract changed what constituted 'unsociable hours' and meant that junior doctors no longer received extra pay for working shifts that were previously classed as unsociable, such as those on the weekend.
"And I did actually succeed in increasing the number of midwives we trained by a quarter, but of course it takes three years to train a midwife so you don't see the impact of that immediately."
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