Member

I said coming into this winter that 14 years of failure cannot be turned around in six months. It will take time to fix our broken NHS. Since July, we have done everything we can to prepare the NHS for winter. Following four months of silence from the previous Government, I called the British Medical Association on day one, met it in week one, and within three weeks negotiated a deal to end the junior doctors’ strike with a new deal for resident doctors. For the first winter in three years, staff are on the front line, not the picket line. The Chancellor made immediate in-year investment in the NHS to fill the black hole we inherited and prevent us having to cut back on services.