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Naz Shah makes a profit on the NHS

With health bosses warning last month that the NHS faces a ‘mission impossible’ to meet the standards required by the government with the current levels of funding, there are financial worries over its future. So, how is the NHS spending its limited funds?

Well, the latest register of interests shows that Naz Shah has been brought in to train staff on ‘leadership’ skills. The Labour MP — who was previously suspended from the party after she said the ‘the Jews are rallying’ over an online poll on the Gaza war — took home £1,200 from the NHS for for delivering two leadership training sessions at the NHS Leadership Academy:

Mr S hopes that Shah’s pearls of wisdom were worth it…

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