Labour's Wes Streeting says he will not condemn nurses for potential strike action

'I’m not going to condemn nurses for going on strike. I don’t blame them. I blame the Government.'

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"What I’d be doing right now is getting the RCN around the table, they’re saying there is a deal to be done, that they’re wiling to negotiate – but so far, negotiations haven’t been done. I think that’s negligent and irresponsible. There are some 575 fewer GPs across Yorkshire and the Humber today than in 2013, he said, with 6,000 nursing vacancies in theLabour’s analysis also showed there are more than half a million patients sitting on NHS waiting lists in Yorkshire and the Humber, 22,000 of whom have been waiting more than a year for treatment.

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