Health and Social Care Leadership Review Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Clive Efford

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Point of Order
Wednesday 8th June 2022

(2 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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This is a very important issue for my hon. Friend. I would be happy to meet him to discuss it further.

Clive Efford Portrait Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
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NHS staff are exhausted and demoralised, and now we are asking them to deal with the growing waiting lists. We still have a huge vacancy problem within our NHS. Where is the plan to deal with that issue? If we are to improve our NHS going forward and have anything there for these managers to manage, we need to deal with that problem within the workforce.

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That is exactly why I have commissioned a 15-year workforce strategy from the NHS.

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