An NHS for the present, and the future

Since 2006, our NHS has been becoming increasingly privatised, with, on average, a yearly increase of 0.5% of the NHS's budget being spent on commissioning healthcare from private providers. It isn't just the Conservatives, the usual group people complain about, but also Labour.

The NHS is one of the most critical and valued public services in the UK, which many other countries' residents envy. The NHS was designed by us, for us: it needs to stay this way.

I guarantee that the percentage of the NHS's budget spent on outsourcing healthcare to private providers will more than half back to 3% by 2024.

Strained Staff

Figures from NHS Digital revealed that in 2018, NHS staff took almost 100,000 more days off of work due to stress and anxiety than they did in 2013. One doctor even stated that "driving off the road at 70mph seemed like a genuinely better alternative than actually going into the ward and doing your job." This is unacceptable.

Despite employing over 1.5 million workers, the NHS doesn't have enough staff to meet current demand, with over 94,000 full-time vacancies being advertised for hospital cand community services alone between July and September, equating to a employee shortfall of around 8%.

This lack of workers creates extreme pressure on those who are employed in the NHS, having to work overtime or complete multiple jobs to make up for this. Some of this gap is filled by untrained, temporary workers which eat into the health service's budget, consuming over £5.6 billion (compared to a planned £5 billion) in 2018/19.

I can guarantee that we will employ more than 10000 additional permanent NHS staff by 2022.

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Figures from NHS Digital revealed that in 2018, NHS staff took almost 100,000 more days off of work due to stress and anxiety than they did in 2013. One doctor even stated that "driving off the road at 70mph seemed like a genuinely better alternative than actually going into the ward and doing your job." This is unacceptable.

Despite employing over 1.5 million workers, the NHS doesn't have enough staff to meet current demand, with over 94,000 full-time vacancies being advertised for hospital and community services alone between July and September, equating to a employee shortfall of around 8%.

This lack of workers creates extreme pressure on those who are employed in the NHS, having to work overtime or complete multiple jobs to make up for this. Some of this gap is filled by untrained, temporary workers which eat into the health service's budget, consuming over £5.6 billion (compared to a planned £5 billion) in 2018/19.

I can guarantee that we will employ more than 10000 additional permanent NHS staff by 2022.