Healthcare Assistants: Recruitment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking recruit more full-time healthcare support workers.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The National Health Service has been facing chronic workforce shortages for years and we have to be honest that bringing in the staff the NHS needs will take time. The Government will make sure the NHS has the staff it needs to be there for all of us when we need it.
We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it. We will launch a 10-Year Health Plan to reform the NHS and make it fit for the future.
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