Coronavirus: NHS started off in ‘worse position’ than other countries – report
"Longstanding issues with bed capacity and workforce shortages will continue to slow the health service down compared to other systems in the race to recovery."
"Longstanding issues with bed capacity and workforce shortages will continue to slow the health service down compared to other systems in the race to recovery."
MPs voted down amendments to the bill earlier this week, one of which would have prevented the NHS from being included in any post-Brexit trade deal.
They have excluded nurses and care workers from pay rises, scrapped free parking and put the NHS on the line in future trade talks.
During the 2019 election, Jeremy Corbyn warned that the Conservatives were planning to include the NHS in a future trade agreement with the US.
Caroline Lucas put forward the amendment, calling for "red lines in the negotiations" rather than more "warm words and nice rhetoric".
The outbreak took place in North Lanarkshire despite the service only tracking cases in England.
“Who will keep our hospitals running and our care home going when ministers pull up the drawbridge?"
“We owe our NHS workers so much. We all clap for them, we should be rewarding them, not making it more expensive to go to work."
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