Jan 21, 2023
NHS England boss: Repeated strikes make workload more challenging
This week, thousands of NHS operations and appointments had to be cancelled because of the nurses' strikes in England. Over the two days of action, NHS England said 27,800 bookings had to be rescheduled, including 5,000 operations and treatments. Ms Pritchard thinks there is a "Once in a generation opportunity" with a new workforce plan being drawn up by NHS England. It was not, she told the BBC, a case of taking money from the NHS to give to the private sector but about offering patients faster access at the same cost to the NHS. When the private sector is paid to do operations such as hip and knee replacements - it generally costs the NHS the same as if it were done in an NHS hospital. Asked about last week's cake controversy after Food Standards Agency chairwoman Prof Susan Jebb compared cake in the office to passive smoking, the NHS England boss said: "I absolutely 100% allow cake in my office."I would say, of course, as part of a balanced diet where we're all being very sensible about what we eat and how we eat it, cake for me forms an essential part.
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