BBCNEWS BBC News At One March 20, 2020 13:00:00
The government calls on retired doctors and nurses to come back to work and help fight the coronavirus outbreak. Letters are being sent to 65,000 retired nhs staff in england and wales telling them their Health Service needs them. We are saying to anybody who has had a recent qualification and has let that qualification lapse, a doctor, nurse, to come back to the nhs, your nhs needs you. It comes as ministers promise all hospitals will get enough Personal Protective Equipment for their staff. Also this lunchtime. New measures expected from the chancellor today to protect the jobs and wages of ...