Best Practice in Nursing Newspaper Issue 1 | Page 8

SEVEN-DAY
NHS CARE
Jeremy Hunt reinforces his
pledge to increase the primary
and community care workforce
as plans for a 7-day NHS care
continue.

In his recent speech on the New Deal for General Practice,
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, reinforced
his pledge to increase the primary and community care
workforce by at least 10,000. This includes an estimated
5,000 more doctors working in general practice, as well as
more practice nurses, district nurses, physicians associates
and pharmacists. Mr Hunt added the exact numbers will
be informed by the Primary Care Workforce Commission
review (chaired by Professor Martin Rowland), that has been
commissioned by Health Education England.
There has been much debate about how seven-day NHS
working will impact on nurses. The Royal College of Nursing
has warned that plans for seven-day care are at ris