Hunt must keep promise to deliver NHS workforce plan, say leaders

Healthcare leaders have urged the UK’s new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, to make good on his previous commitments to fix the NHS’s workforce and pensions crises and not to cut spending on health services amid the current economic turmoil facing the country.Hunt was appointed to replace Kwasi Kwarteng on 14 October by the beleaguered prime minister, Liz Truss, who has seen her premiership unravel in just a matter of weeks after her government announced a series of radical and unfunded tax cuts in its “mini-budget” last month.Hunt was health secretary for England for six years between 2012 and 2018 and more recently has served as chair of the House of Commons Health Committee since January 2020. In this most recent role he has been a vocal advocate for a full NHS workforce plan and for fixing the damaging pension taxation rules that are prompting many doctors to retire.But he has been…
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