NHS: Staff Numbers after Covid-19 Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Staff Numbers after Covid-19

Lord Jones Excerpts
Thursday 4th March 2021

(3 years, 8 months ago)

Grand Committee
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I offer tribute to our local NHS staff, those hard-pressed, weary, dedicated, resourceful, very local nurses and GPs and ever-courteous volunteers aplenty. They, the nurses, have injected tens of thousands so very professionally. Daily, we queued in our hundreds at the Deeside Leisure Centre. We sought immunity and we got it—the heroic nurses gave it. The nurse and the gatekeeper GP are the backbone of the NHS. We need more of them, urgently, and let us reward the heroic nurses better.