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To Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

The NHS is on the brink of collapse. Nurses are resorting to food banks just to make ends meet, paramedics are leaving their vital roles for higher-paid jobs in supermarkets and doctors are being forced to seek employment abroad. The strain on our healthcare professionals is unbearable, and it is time the government took decisive action!

Here's what one nurse thinks:
I am an NHS nurse, now in my 44th year of nursing and i’ve had enough. I can’t stand by and watch them neglect the NHS and all the staff who work hard every day. Many can’t afford the basics like rent. We all worked ourselves to exhaustion during the pandemic every nurse, doctor, receptionist, porter, OT, physio, everyone! Many colleagues died, we all faced death with every patient who came into hospital and every patient who was visited in their own homes! We put our lives on the line and we watched and did as much as we humanly could to save our patients including Boris Johnson!"

Open letter text

We, the undersigned, call upon the Health Secretary to immediately release the long-awaited NHS workforce plan. Investing in NHS staff, is an investment in the whole country's health. Chronic staff shortages are putting people's health at risk, so a clear roadmap for how to save the NHS is needed NOW.

It is deeply concerning that the workforce plan is being withheld due to concerns over costs. The public's health should always be prioritised over budgetary constraints.



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Signers list

Colin Watts
Pamela Hall
Julie Wright
Doreen Reid
Peter Phillips
Ruth Behan
Bridget Burrow
Veronica Giesen
Adrian Thompson
R,P Abbott
Marie Delicata-Bennett
David Avery
Tim Whelan
Margaret Dunne
Dominique Robathan
John Churcher
Lois Cooke
David Wicks
Peter Denington
Jane Lyon
Nigel Wilkinson
Tom Akehurst
Vic Hamilton
Hilary Revell
Richard Dewar
Tim Cornish
Stephen F
Angela Smyth
Julian Coward
Susan Lewis
Tracy Wright
David Woodruff
Margaret Arnold
Zane Suikovska
Lynn Dyer
Sivan Halevi
Mike Hale
Andrew D Maines
Alison Green
Les Mitchell
Linda M Hamilton-Ross
Linda Mary Williamson
Dammi Holbourne
Mark Miley
Michael Hunt
Susan Raddon
Jim Sleight
Linda Rowe
Iain Brown
Linda Simpson

Steve Barclay: Publish the NHS workforce plan NOW!

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