{"id":425167,"date":"2026-02-14T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425167\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:51:07","slug":"welsh-tories-pledge-retired-doctors-and-nurses-would-make-up-nhs-reserve-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425167\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Tories pledge retired doctors and nurses would make up NHS reserve service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most recent waiting time figures showed the number of people waiting for treatment had fallen by the biggest figure on record, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c74wwqw5wveo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">standing at just under 757,900<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh Conservative health manifesto says the party would set up the NHS Wales Reserves Service, to give the health service a bank of staff that can be called up during periods of crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millar told BBC Wales: &#8220;Staffing of the NHS is a disaster in Wales at the moment. There hasn&#8217;t been effective workforce planning by the Labour government or indeed by their partners, so we need to make sure we&#8217;ve got a proper workforce plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are doctors out there in Wales at the moment who have just qualified. There are nurses who have just qualified, who don&#8217;t have a job, they don&#8217;t have any employment. And that&#8217;s ridiculous when you consider the situation that the NHS is in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the reservist plan &#8220;is to bring people back into the workforce at times of peak need, so that they can help us to get to grips with these challenges, that&#8217;s our focus&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It would include &#8220;people who might have retired, people who may have left health professions for other things, other people who might work in the private sector from time to time, but might want to make themselves available to the NHS in order to serve their country&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most recent waiting time figures showed the number of people waiting for treatment had fallen by the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-425167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}