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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

As with so many organisational crisis, the NHS crisis is about workforce planning & the treatment (and experience) of staff.

Medical staff are over-worked & often under-paid, working in often crumbling buildings & too often bare the brunt of social breakdown (manifesting as health problems).

So lets listen to healthcare workers: make their lives better, invest in the environment they work in & employ more of them, and much (but not all) the crisis would be eased!

@ChrisMayLA6 Absolutely this! As well as talking about how Truss crashed the economy, the Government should spend a lot of time talking about what the Tories did to NHS staff.

@ChrisMayLA6 Bad news on that front, unfortunately: theguardian.com/society/2025/j

Still, I guess that's the "loophole" we were looking for in Streeting's alleged block on private providers poaching NHS staff the other day- stop the NHS from hiring them in the first place.

The Guardian · Hiring freeze at dozens of NHS cancer and diagnostic units despite rising referralsBy Denis Campbell