Our response to statement on staffing concerns from NHS Providers

Candace Imison agrees with the NHS Providers that staffing issues in the NHS need to be central to the 2017 election.

Press release

Published: 08/05/2017

Responding to NHS Providers’ press statement “Worries over NHS staffing a key election concern”, Nuffield Trust Director of Policy Candace Imison said:

"I could not agree more that staffing issues in the NHS need to be central to this election.

"We have warned for some time that the health service’s workforce problem is now just as urgent as its overstretched finances. The worry that this is starting to have an impact on standards of care is well founded.

"The pay restraint staff have experienced for the last seven years has been responsible for a significant proportion of the efficiency savings the NHS has so far achieved, but as the IFS warned last week, it may simply not be possible to go on like this".

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