Government wants to blame NHS’s problems on strikes, says Labour

The shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, has said he can’t understand how the government allowed the “heartbreaking” nursing staff strikes to happen “without a single minute of negotiation having taken place.”Speaking at the launch of the Roadmap to Double Medical School Places report by the think tank Policy Exchange,1 Streeting said he believed the “crisis is existential for the NHS” and that the health service must change.As part of its vision for NHS reform, the Labour Party is promising to double medical school places to 15 000 and create 10 000 more nursing and midwifery clinical placements each year, paid for by abolishing the non-domiciled tax status.When asked how medical school placements and junior doctor training places would be increased to accommodate the increase in medical students, Streeting said he thought returning doctors could make a “really big impact.”“I would see returners as playing a big role in medical education,…
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