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The Independent UK
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Claudia Savage

Streeting vows Budget will put NHS staff ‘on front line, not the picket line’

In September, junior doctors in England voted to accept a Government pay deal worth 22.3% on average over two years (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged that winter 2024 will be the first “in three years where NHS staff are on the front line, not the picket line”.

Mr Streeting also vowed Labour would rebuild hospitals, but was questioned about how increases to employers’ national insurance contributions would affect GP surgeries and social care providers.

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