Doctors and nurses warn NHS already running on 'goodwill' and demand 'proper' pay rise
The people behind the scenes trying to make Labour's last pre-election conference a successSir Keir Starmer has said Labour will provide £1.1bn to pay for more doctors and nurses overtime Medics warned that the plan, which will lead to an extra £1.
Sir Keir told the BBC that doctors “will probably get more in the private sector” but he believed they would do overtime for the NHS “because they want to bring down the waiting list as well”. NHS staff “are up for this because they know that bringing down the waiting list will reduce the pressure on them in the long run”, he said.“We need growth in our economy, we need to raise living standards across the country. We will never do that with the mess that this Government has made of the NHS.”BMA council chairman Professor Philip Banfield said the “vast majority of doctors already take on extra work”.
“For far too long, it has been our goodwill keeping the health service afloat,” he added. “While this move may very well incentivise further overtime, it is only once doctors receive restoration of lost relative value will we be in a position to look at the impact that this extra overtime funding may have on waiting lists.
“Health workers are already up against it and there are only so many hours in a day. But a voluntary scheme, where staff are paid fairly, that avoids the use of expensive agencies, makes sense in the short-term.”
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