NHS Workers & Patients At Risk

‘Worst staff crisis ever’ | ‘No No10 plan to beat it’

- Pippa Crerar

THE Tories have been accused of doing nothing as the NHS descends into a staffing crisis, with an exodus of workers putting patient safety seriously at risk.

A damning report warns the service is facing the biggest shortages in its 74-year history – in every department.

And in a scathing attack it blasts No10’s pitiful response to the crisis by revealing Boris Johnson has not come up with any plan to combat it.

Health chiefs warned the situation could hamper efforts to clear the Covid backlog. The Nuffield Trust said there is a shortage of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives after 12 years of pay freezes and paltry rises.

Maternity services are said to be under “unsustainable pressure” putting mothers and babies’ safety on the line. And many exhausted workers are suffering sickness caused by anxiety, stress and depression, further hitting numbers.