Nurse who trained Harrogate Nightingale Hospital staff says government's NHS budget plans wont be an "overnight fix"
We'll be hearing from the Health Secretary today on the Autumn budget plans
A nurse who trained staff working at Yorkshire's Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate says the government's a plans to bring in more non emergency testing and equipment to 'reduce waiting times' wont solve the pressures on the NHS.
It's as we'll be hearing from the Health Secretary today on his budget proposals.
An extra six-billion pounds for the NHS in England will partly be used to speed up non-emergency tests and procedures
There'll be support for at least 100 'one-stop-shop' centres, to help those waiting for MRIs, ultrasounds and CT scans.
Nicki Credland, who trained Nightingale nurses, is a reader in care at the University of Hull. She said:
“Nothing happens in the NHS without someone being at the end of it so yes we can put more money into infrastructure. Yes we can put more money into IT into equipment, but at the end of the day you need to have human beings to enable all of those things to work.
“The NHS from a staffing perspective has been run down over the last 10/20 years. You can't miraculously make that better again in the space of a year but we need to have a really efficient and effective staffing strategy moving forward and particularly in relation to the attention of staff in the NHS because that's our biggest problem.”