Liz Truss: I'll halt NHS doctor exodus
Tory frontrunner vows to cut waiting lists as a top priority, alongside tax cuts and broadening energy supply
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Tory frontrunner vows to cut waiting lists as a top priority, alongside tax cuts and broadening energy supply
Majority of those surveyed as second virus wave began to take hold had not returned to work or received a job offer
Bureaucracy stopping retired medics from returning to NHS front line to fight Covid Only one in eight who originally applied to return have been able to work, NHS boss overseeing recruitment reveals Retired medics have been prevented from returning to the NHS front line to help battle the coronavirus pandemic by bureaucracy including a requirement to provide 21 pieces of evidence, The Telegraph can reveal. Claire Barker, a retired GP, said it was "impossible" for her to apply because she did not have the required proof, which includes evidence of Prevent Radicalisation training. It comes a...
Red tape blamed for only 5,000 of the 40,000 retired NHS workers who volunteered to return to fight Covid being given jobs GP Claire Barker said she did not have the required 21 forms to work despite owning her practice for 30 years Dr Brian Cooper, 73, one of 47,000 retired medics to sign up to the NHS's call for volunteers in April They were supposed to be deployed to hospitals to get normal care up and running during Covid crisis But Dr Cooper claims he was left in lurch for seven months then asked to do contact tracing work