This Labour Government has decided to remove 1,000 potential NHS specialist training jobs because doctors wouldn’t bow down to their terms.
Those jobs aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet. They are the future GPs, surgeons, radiologists, anaesthetists and psychiatrists the public will one day need. Removing them doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients and the NHS.
So once again, it’s time to stand together.
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Most people assume that if the NHS needs more specialist doctors, the Government would train more of them.
But that’s not actually what’s happening.
The Government can decide how many specialist training jobs exist each year. They can increase them, reduce them, or remove them entirely. These numbers are a political decision.
So when the Government removes 1,000 future NHS specialist training jobs, that is an active choice to have 1,000 fewer future NHS specialists.
That means fewer potential radiologists reading scans.
Fewer potential surgeons doing operations.
Fewer potential anaesthetists running theatres.
Fewer potential psychiatrists and GPs seeing patients.
At a time when waiting lists are in the millions and patients are waiting months or years to see specialists, the Government has actively chosen to reduce the number of future specialists.
That doesn’t just punish doctors. It punishes patients and the NHS as a whole, because it means fewer potential specialists and longer waits in the future.
And the most concerning part is why this happened. These training jobs were discussed in the context of negotiations with doctors. That means specialist training jobs, and therefore future NHS specialists, were being treated as something that could be added or removed depending on whether doctors accepted Government terms.
That is not workforce planning.
That is using future NHS specialists as leverage.
The Government can create more NHS specialists if it wants to.
It can reduce waiting lists faster if it wants to.
It can train more doctors if it wants to.
Yet they’ve chosen not to.
This was a political choice that this Labour Government have made.
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The Health Foundation has estimated that around 30,000 extra beds would meet these demands and end brutal corridor care.
Costs would be around £7b per year (+£20b one-off capital investment).
We pay over £15b per year to private providers.
Corridor care is a political choice.
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