Rishi Sunak has unveiled a 15-year plan to ‘transform’ the NHS, calling it 'the biggest workforce training expansion in the NHS’s history'.
is also on the horizon, their fourth round of industrial action as they call for ‘full pay restoration’.
When told that the number of people on the NHS waiting list as a whole was growing, he responded: ‘It’s because we’ve had a pandemic, Laura, the backlog that ensued was always going to take some time to work through… Writing in the Sunday Times, Mr Sunak said the new plan would be vital to help bring about his government’s vision for ‘a better, more modern healthcare system’.
‘It will be a 15-year plan to give the NHS certainty, because we recognise it takes time to train these staff, who are among the most highly skilled in our society.’
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