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Jan 2022
MPs’ warning to fix NHS staffing crisis to tackle waiting lists backlog
The government is being warned that a long-term plan to fix the NHS staffing crisis is needed to reduce record waiting lists for treatment.
There are currently approaching six million people in England waiting for routine procedures and operations, many of whom are in pain.
A report from MPs says the government needs to address the issues or NHS workers will quit.
As of September 2021, a record 5.8 million patients were waiting for operations, such as knee or hip replacements, with 300,000 waiting more than 12 months compared with just 1,600 before the pandemic.
In its report published earlier this week, the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee said the NHS was hugely understaffed and was facing an “unquantifiable challenging” in tackling the backlog.
While it welcomed the government funding of £5.9bn to help clear the backlog, the committee said NHS England was yet to publish “how it plans to meet its workforce requirements”, despite this being promised by health secretary Sajid Javid by the end of November.
The report said many staff were feeling under pressure and could quit unless they saw the “light at the end of the tunnel” of more staff being recruited.
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