The NHS is in crisis, but the government at last has a plan: a ‘Long-term Workforce plan’, that is, aimed at getting staffing levels up to something functional in the years to come. The £2.4 billion blueprint (which has big question marks around how it will be funded) was published today. Medic placements will be doubled to 15,000 a year and close to 25,000 more nursing and midwife places will be created by the start of the next decade. These might be good ideas but they will do little to help ease the misery of those stuck on the NHS’s enormous waiting lists.
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