| NHS hour's blow; Staffing Crisis looms Hospitals are facing a major staffing crisis as a result of European legislation and court rulings on Doctors' working hours The Lords' European Union committee cautioned that the extension of the Working Time Directive to junior hospital doctors from 1 st August 2004 could have a dramatic effect on the NHS. Today's report said: “we've been told that the effect would be tantamount to losing the equivalent of 3,700 junior doctors.” This comes on top of the national shortage of Nurses in our hospitals; Bridlington been no exception; what are the Government doing about it, we ask? Every part of our National Health Service is now in crisis; the Hospitals, the Ambulance Service and many other services, too numerous to list! We have in the past written to our Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Tony Blair and our Health Secretary the Rt. Hon. Dr John Milburn MP but our pleas have fallen deaf ears; fears are if the NHS isn't cash injected from Central Government very soon, it will be in a very poor state of repair that could well take many, many years to put back in to an efficient service once more.
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