We do need more doctors and more nurses. We saw an increase of about 8,000 nurses and 10,000 doctors in the previous Parliament. We will need more for the simple reason that we will have 1 million more over-70s by the end of this Parliament. That said, the NHS is admired in the other countries my hon. Friend talks about for our models of care, which are sometimes less hospital-centric and therefore inherently more efficient than what happens in some other systems. The learning should go both ways.
NHS Reform
Proceeding contribution from
Jeremy Hunt
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 16 July 2015.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on NHS Reform.
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