Wes Streeting squirms when asked if scrapping NHS England means job losses for doctors and nurses

Wes Streeting squirms when asked if scrapping NHS England means job lossesLBC

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00:00Some of them concluded on the numbers they're being given that they're going to have to get

00:03rid of frontline staff, that doctors and nurses are going to have to be shed quite quickly because

00:09of the budget. Can you look me in the eye or look our listeners in the eye as it were and tell them

00:13that isn't true? Well there'll definitely be some changes because I mean today for example...

00:18Sorry, losses of doctors and nurses. Firstly we should not be losing frontline staff and services

00:24because we have got I think a bloated bureaucracy and layers and layers of bureaucracy. Listen we

00:34both know that I'm not talking about bureaucracy, I'm not talking about the office jobs, I'm asking

00:39you to say whether or not you think doctors and nurses will have to lose their jobs because of

00:44what's happening because of the budget. I can't say there'll be no changes to services but for

00:49example we've put now almost a thousand more GPs onto the frontline since we came in. You're the

00:57most straight-talking member of this government. Can you just say to me

01:02some doctors and nurses sadly are going to lose their jobs?