.@wesstreeting says Labour will work with NHS managers to deal with the biggest crisis in the NHS history. He says many of the problems have been created by government failures. #nhsp22
There is no future for the NHS that involves pouring ever larger amounts of money into a 20th century care model, says @wesstreeting adding: "We don't focus enough on prevention, early intervention and social care. The case for change is unarguable." #nhsp22
.@wesstreeting says Labour will launch major reforms of NHS when in Govt (shudders) with a 10year plan. This will include doubling the number of district nurses qualifying he says. #nhsp22
"We will create an extra 10,000 nursing and midwifery clinical placements every year, and we will fund this by abolishing the non-dom tax status" - @wesstreeting #nhsp22
"Covid doesn't explain why we went into pandemic with waiting lists already at record 4.5m & 100k staff shortages and 112,000 vacancies in social care" says @wesstreeting pointing to decisions of Tories over 12 years that led to NHS decline, in contrast to last Labour Gov #nhsp22
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