£250m to tackle NHS waiting times - but fresh funding labelled 'sticking plaster'
After beginning a week-long focus on health with a plucky and pugnacious attack on the record of the NHS in Wales and Scotland, the Westminster government is now pivoting to talking up its own plans for the months ahead.
Politically, tongues may be set wagging by the prominence given in the government’s overnight press release to projects in areas like Peterborough, Teesside, the Humber region, Guildford, Croydon and Harrow.They are all regions with constituencies that will likely decide the outcome of the next general election.
However, the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, Pat Cullen, said in a statement:"The elephant in the room is who will staff these additional beds? Nursing staff are already spread too thinly over too many patients.
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