Labour has announced a new plan to address the NHS backlog by requiring NHS staff to work weekends and offering overtime pay for extra shifts during evenings and weekends. The initiative, led by Wes Streeting, aims to reduce waiting lists and expedite patient care, including cutting A&E waiting lists. The plan includes providing free private healthcare for doctors and nurses with health issues to help them return to work more quickly. The program is expected to cost £1.1 billion, which will be directly paid into the staff's pockets. This approach is already being implemented in a few hospitals and Labour intends to expand it nationwide. Wes Streeting has also stated that if Labour fails on the NHS, voters should vote them out.
'When did Labour become to Tory? "We'll make you work harder, and we'll get rid of the foreigners!"' Wes Streeting says he will make NHS staff work nights and weekends in order to get waiting lists down. @MrSteveNAllen @PaulCoxComedy @LewisSchaffer react to the front pages. https://t.co/AClMV9euIe
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NHS staff already work weekends. Labour will pay staff overtime for extra shifts at evenings and weekends to cut waiting lists. It’s already working in a handful of hospitals. We need it to happen across the nation. It will cost £1.1 billion, paid direct into staff’s pockets. https://t.co/7my0r63ofr
In the week when Labour launched THAT pledge card, we have Wes Streeting writing! He vows: 🩺Cash to get NHS staff working evenings & weekends 🩺Free private healthcare to get sick medics back to work 🩺Tells Brits - vote us out if we fail on NHS https://t.co/Xd8AcjQMw7
Hospitals to work weekends and pool staff to get NHS backlog down under Labour, Wes Streeting says https://t.co/y3gBV1rgz0
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EXCL - Doctors and nurses with bad backs to get free private healthcare under Labour plan Wes Streeting says it will get medics back to work and treating patients quicker...helping to cut A&E waiting lists 🧑⚕️🩺 https://t.co/dVM2NcLv7J
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