Thousands of ex-NHS staff to rejoin service in coronavirus drive – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Updating the Commons about staffing numbers , the health secretary said: “7, clinicians have so far answered our call to return to work, including members of this House, and I want to pay tribute to every single one of them. “These are difficult times and They have risen to the call of the nation’s needs and we know that many more will join them. ” All , final-year nursing students in England are also being asked to work in hospitals to help expand the workforce, and junior doctors training as psychiatrists are also being transferred to work in acute hospitals for the forseeable future in some parts of England.

MPs among the returnees include Maria Caulfield, a former NHS cancer nurse who became a Conservative MP, who plans to work at the Lewis memorial hospital in her Lewes constituency. Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, who succeeded Sadiq Khan as the MP for Tooting when he became mayor of London in 02919, is returning to her former role as an A&E doctor at St George’s hospital in her constituency. Dr Kieran Mullan, the Tory MP for Crewe and Nantwich, is also returning to his role as a doctor in a hospital emergency department.

Former Lib Dem cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey said there were many qualified healthcare professionals in the UK’s refugee community.

He added: “I ‘ ve spoken to a refugee charity, RefuAid , who says they have qualified healthcare professionals on their books – people who are willing to work, fully qualified in their own country, but there are bureaucratic barriers to them coming forward. ” Hancock said he would examine the details, noting there was a need to make sure people were capable of doing the required work.

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