The Health Secretary is not being "ambitious enough" with his plans to reduce the growing NHS waiting list, a Conservative former chief whip has said.
Sajid Javid has pledged to recruit 15,000 new health workers by the end of March as the Government warned the NHS waiting list in England will not start to fall for another two years and could even double in size.
Mr Javid, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said the NHS aimed "to recruit 10,000 more nurses from overseas and 5,000 more healthcare support workers by the end of March" to increase capacity.
