Proceeding contribution from Caroline Lucas (Green Party) in the House of Commons on Monday, 9 January 2023. It occurred during Ministerial statement on NHS Winter Pressures.
NHS Winter Pressures
The NHS and social care are in unprecedented crisis, even if that is a word that the Secretary of State and the Prime Minister refuse to use. We know that resilience was stripped out of our NHS years before the covid pandemic, and I come back to the level of vacancies: there are 133,000 in our NHS and 165,000 in social care. Will the Minister admit that, as well as growing the workforce, we urgently need to keep the workforce that we have? If so, why are the Government not at least meeting the nurses halfway on pay, as the Royal College of Nursing has offered to do, and why, after 13 years of Tory Government, is the average care worker’s pay less than the pay at McDonald’s or Amazon?
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- 2022-23
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Care homes Cancer Discharges Ambulance services Health services Finance Inspections General practitioners Home care services Hospital beds NHS Recruitment Pharmacy Older people Staff Migrant workers Weather Taxation Technology Social services Vaccination Vacancies Visas Accident and emergency departments Influenza Coronavirus
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