Responding to responding to the IFS report, Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said:
“When investment in the NHS fails to meet demand, it is patients who suffer greatly – even paying the highest price – and, as nursing staff, we are left to try to pick up the pieces.
“You cannot have a productive economy with millions of patients waiting months on end for treatment. And you can’t bring down waiting lists when the NHS is grappling with chronic workforce shortages. This is a timely reminder while parties plan election manifestos that investment in healthcare and the nursing workforce that deliver it is good economics – the prime minister must waste no time in acting on it.”
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