Staff shortages are the bigger issue that needs to be resolved to reduce waiting lists, according to NHS unions and staff
an increase in overtime pay could encourage staff to work evenings and weekends but warned it was only a “short-term fix”.
Mr Streeting said on Sunday that the policy, which would cost £1.1bn, was “already working in a handful of hospitals” and “we need it to happen across the nation”. She said the NHS workforce needs to be rapidly expanded “to get beyond stopgap measures”, recruited staff need to be paid well, and equipment and premises need to be upgraded.
Prof Banfield said releasing extra weekend capacity requires “substantial investment” in doctors, nurses and support staff “given that they already deliver 24/7 emergency services, 365 days of the year”. Holly Turner, a specialist CAMHS nurse in Essex, said she and her husband, who is also a nurse, work weekends and on their days off to top up their monthly wage, and receive extra payments.: “Staff are exhausted and burning out. To expect these same staff, who have faced over a decade of real terms cuts to their pay, to plug the gaps created by a recruitment and retention crisis is wrong.
Kate Edwards, an NHS nurse involved in the NHS Workers Say NO! campaign, said she was “concerned” that Mr Streeting was “focused on increasing the workload and productivity of existing NHS staff who have been burnt out over a number of years – including a global pandemic – without any suggestions to improve their pay or working conditions”.: “Staff are already leaving the NHS in droves, due to unmanageable workloads, stress and burnout – many enticed by much better pay and conditions overseas.
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