Health and Social Care Leadership Review Debate
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(2 years, 2 months ago)
Commons ChamberThis is a very important issue for my hon. Friend. I would be happy to meet him to discuss it further.
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.
That is exactly why I have commissioned a 15-year workforce strategy from the NHS.